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Miss. Code Ann. § 85-7-3: Sawmill employees and timber men; lien on lumber and timber.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 85. Debtor-Creditor Relationship
- Chapter 7. Liens
- Article 1. Crops, Advances, Lumber, Timber, Foals, Calves and Water Craft.
- Liens on Crops, Advances, Lumber, Timber, Foals, Calves and Water Craft
Every employee or laborer of an employer engaged in the operation of a sawmill or planing mill or in cutting and shipping or rafting timber shall have a lien on all such lumber and timber for his wages due by such employer in preference to all other debts of the said employer; but such lien shall take effect as to purchases or incumbrances for a valuable consideration without notice thereof only from the time of commencing judicial proceedings to enforce the lien, and unless such proceedings have been begun the said lien shall expire six (6) months after the claim is due.
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