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Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-11.01: Definitions.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships
  2. Chapter 4. Mississippi Business Corporation Act
  3. Article 11. Merger and Share Exchange.

As used in this chapter:

(a) “Merger” means a business combination pursuant to Section 79-4-11.02.

(b) “Organizational documents” means the basic document or documents that create, or determine the internal governance of, an eligible entity.

(c) “Party to a merger” or “party to a share exchange” means any domestic or foreign corporation or eligible entity that will:

(1) Merge under a plan of merger;

(2) Acquire shares or eligible interests of another corporation or eligible entity in a share exchange; or

(3) Have all of its shares or eligible interests or all of one or more classes or series of its shares or eligible interests acquired in a share exchange.

(d) “Share exchange” means a business combination pursuant to Section 79-4-11.03.

(e) “Survivor” in a merger means the corporation or eligible entity into which one or more other corporations or eligible entities are merged. A survivor of a merger may preexist the merger or be created by the merger.

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