Miss. Code § 27-43-5

Current through 6/1/2024
Section 27-43-5 - Notice to lienors

It shall be the duty of the clerk of the chancery court to examine the record of deeds, mortgages and deeds of trust in his office to ascertain the names and addresses of all mortgagees, beneficiaries and holders of vendors liens of all lands sold for taxes; and he shall, within the time fixed by law for notifying owners, send by certified mail with return receipt requested to all such lienors so shown of record the following notice, to-wit:

"State of Mississippi, To ____________________,

County of ____________________

"You will take notice that ____________________ (here describe lands) assessed to, or supposed to be owned by ____________________ was on the ____________________ day of ____________________, 2 ____________________, sold to ____________________ for the taxes of ____________________ (giving year) upon which you have a lien by virtue of the instrument recorded in this office in ____________________ Book ____________________, page ____________________, dated ____________________, and that the title to said land will become absolute in said purchaser unless redemption from said sale be made on or before the ____________________ day of May of 2 ____________________.

"This ____________________ day of ____________________, 2 ____________________.

"____________________

"Chancery Clerk of ____________________ County, Miss."

Miss. Code § 27-43-5

Codes, 1930, § 3259; 1942, § 9943; Laws, 1922, ch. 241; Laws, 1988, ch. 478; Laws, 1995, ch. 468, § 13; Laws, 1995, ch. 381, § 1, eff. 7/1/1995.