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

Miss. Code Ann. § 85-1-13: Creditor’s cross-petition to set aside assignment; rights of successful creditor.

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  1. Title 85. Debtor-Creditor Relationship
  2. Chapter 1. Assignment for Benefit of Creditors

The creditor filing a cross-petition, if he succeed in establishing that the assignment ought not to be enforced, shall have priority over all other creditors in the distribution of the proceeds of the property in the assignee’s hands, and a lien, from the filing of his cross-petition, on other property he may seek to have subjected to his debt; and in aid of such lien, a writ of sequestration, injunction, or other remedial process may issue.

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