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Mississippi Code 1972
Title 91 - TRUSTS AND ESTATES
Chapter 5 - WILLS AND TESTAMENTS
Section 91-5-13 - Creditor competent witness to will

Miss. Code § 91-5-13

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Section 91-5-13 - Creditor competent witness to will

Any creditor shall be a competent subscribing witness to a last will and testament; but any special provision in favor of such creditor in the will, either by admitting the debt or by providing for its payment or by giving it a preference, shall be void, and such claim shall stand as though the provision had not been made.

Miss. Code § 91-5-13

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (44); 1857, ch. 60, art. 46; 1871, § 1102; 1880, § 1974; 1892, § 1827; 1906, § 2002; Hemingway's 1917, § 1667; 1930, § 3555; 1942, § 662.