{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-11-45-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 11-45-3","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 11-45-3","body":"The summons in such suit shall be served on the Attorney General in the mode prescribed by law for the service of a summons in other cases; and he shall appear for the state. The suit shall be proceeded with as if it were between private persons; but a bill shall not be taken as confessed nor a judgment by default be rendered against the state. The answer of the state to any bill need not be under oath or under the great seal, but may be made by the Attorney General for the state.","path":["MS Code","Title 11"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"5f121f5e78bcd6edea3b6a1bd6243a57b1586dc703bd3c8988ea8a0082ef13c7","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-11-45-25","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-11-45-5","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}