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Miss. Code Ann. § 89-13-23: Fence removed if not paid for, and adopted by paying proportion of value.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 89. Real and Personal Property
- Chapter 13. Party Fences
The person who built the party fence may remove it at pleasure, if the owner of the adjoining land will not pay his proportion thereof; and although the proprietor of any land may desire to retain any fence built by him on a line which divides his land from that of another person, as a private fence, yet that other person may adopt the same as a party fence by paying his proportion of the value thereof; and if the value cannot be agreed upon by the parties, the person desiring to adopt the fence may apply to a justice of the peace to appoint freeholders to assess the proportion that should be paid, as in other cases.
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