91-1-31 - Judgment as to descent of property cannot be assailed collaterally except for fraud. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 91-1-31. Judgment as to descent of property cannot be assailed collaterally except for fraud.
 

A judgment so rendered as provided in Section 91-1-29 shall not be assailed collaterally, except for fraud, and shall be binding and conclusive upon all persons cited to appear from the date of its rendition, and upon all persons whomsoever from and after the expiration of two (2) years from the date on which the same was rendered, saving to minors and persons of unsound mind, the right to re-open said cause within one (1) year after attaining majority or being restored to sanity. A judgment so rendered shall thereupon be filed, recorded and indexed by the chancery clerk of the county where rendered in the general deed records of said county, just as if it were a deed of conveyance from said decedent to his heirs at law. And a certified copy of such judgment may likewise be filed, recorded and indexed in any other county where the decedent owned land at the date of his death. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1906, § 2792; Hemingway's 1917, § 312; 1930, § 361; 1942, § 1272; Laws,  1991, ch. 573, § 128, eff from and after July 1, 1991.