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Miss. Code Ann. § 87-1-31: Prohibition against buying or selling futures.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 87. Contracts and Contractual Relations
- Chapter 1. Gambling and Future Contracts
If any person shall buy or sell commodities of any kind, to be delivered at a future day, without agreeing and intending that the commodities are to be actually delivered in kind, and the price paid, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 87-1-33.
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