Miss. Code § 15-1-11

Current through the 2024 Regular Session

Section 15-1-11 - Limitations applicable to actions to recover land for defect in instrument

Any person who has a right of action for the recovery of land because of any one or more of the following enumerated defects in any instrument, shall institute his suit therefor not later than 10 years next after the date when such instrument has been actually recorded in the office of the clerk of the chancery court of the county in which such real estate is situated and not afterwards:

(1) where it has not been signed by the proper officer of any corporation;

(2) where the corporate seal of the corporation has not been impressed on such instrument;

(3) where the record does not show such corporate seal;

(4) because the record does not show authority therefor by the board of directors and stockholders (or either of them) of a corporation;

(5) where such instrument was executed and delivered by a corporation which had been dissolved or whose charter had expired, or whose corporate franchise had been cancelled, withdrawn or forfeited;

(6) where the executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, master in chancery, agent or trustee, or other agency making such instrument, signed or acknowledged the same individually instead of in his representative or official capacity;

(7) where such instrument is executed by a trustee without record of judicial or other ascertainment of the authority of such trustee or of the verity of the facts therein recited;

(8) where the officer taking the acknowledgment of such instrument having an official seal did not affix the same to the certificate of acknowledgment;

(9) where the notarial seal is not shown of record;

(10) where the wording of the consideration may or might create an implied lien in favor of the grantor (by this is not meant an express vendor's lien retained).

If, at the time at which the right of any person to bring an action for the recovery of land because of any such defects, shall have first accrued, such persons shall have been under the disability of infancy or unsoundness of mind, then such person or the person claiming through him, may, notwithstanding that the period of limitations hereinbefore provided for shall have expired, bring an action to recover the land at any time within the period of limitations provided herein next after the time at which the person to whom the right shall have first accrued shall have ceased to be under either disability, or shall have died, whichever shall have first happened. However, when any person who shall be under either of the disabilities mentioned, at the time at which his right shall have first accrued, shall depart this life without having ceased to be under such disability no time to bring an action to recover the land beyond the period of limitations provided herein next after the time at which such persons shall have died, shall be allowed by reason of the disability of any other person. Moreover, the saving in favor of persons under disability of unsoundness of mind shall never extend longer than thirty-one years.

This section shall not, however, apply to forged instruments.

Miss. Code § 15-1-11

Codes, 1942, §§ 712, 714; Laws, 1942, ch. 300.