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

Miss. Code Ann. § 87-5-13: Execution against principal and sureties; how served.

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  1. Title 87. Contracts and Contractual Relations
  2. Chapter 5. Principal and Surety

When execution shall issue on any judgment or decree rendered against a principal and surety, and the surety shall make affidavit that he is only surety on the instrument upon which the judgment or decree is founded, and deliver it to the officer serving the execution, the officer shall make the money, or as much thereof as possible, out of the property of the principal debtor, if he have any in the county to which the execution is issued subject to execution; and the officer shall return the affidavit with the execution.

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