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Mississippi Code 1972
Title 15 - LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS AND PREVENTION OF FRAUDS
Chapter 1 - LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
Section 15-1-35 - Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts

Miss. Code § 15-1-35

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Section 15-1-35 - Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts

All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.

Miss. Code § 15-1-35

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, art. 6 (6); 1857, ch. 57, art. 7; 1871, § 2152; 1880, § 2673; 1892, § 2742; 1906, § 3102; Hemingway's 1917, § 2466; 1930, § 2302; 1942, § 732; Laws, 1983, ch. 394, eff. 7/1/1983.