{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-37-117-1","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 37-117-1","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 37-117-1","body":"The institution incorporated by the act of the legislature, approved March 12, 1884, and established in pursuance thereof, shall continue to exist as a body politic and corporate by the name of the “Mississippi College for Women,” with all its property and franchises, rights, powers and privileges conferred on it by law, or properly incident to such a body and necessary to accomplish the purpose of its creation; said college may receive and hold all real estate and personal property conveyed or given to it for such purposes. However, the name “Mississippi State College for Women” is hereafter changed to “Mississippi University for Women,” without interference with the rights, powers and prerogatives of said college which continue in all respects. Whenever the name “Mississippi College for Women” appears the same is construed to denote “Mississippi University for Women.”","path":["MS Code","Title 37"],"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":"7b1defcb672b214e8933b144a13196976d871f2d1df3eb3395c1c90c7f552f04","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-37-115-75","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-37-117-11","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."}