{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-3-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 85-3-9","heading":"Execution or attachment of personal property; replevy by defendant.","body":"Any defendant whose exempt property is seized may replevy the same by giving bond with sureties, to be approved by the officer seizing it, in double the value of the property, payable to the plaintiff in the execution or attachment, and conditioned to have the property forthcoming, to abide the event of an issue to be made up at the return term of the process; and in such case the officer shall deliver the property to the defendant, and return the bond with the process; and at the return term an issue shall be made up under the direction of the court, and tried, as in case of the trial of the right of property levied upon and claimed by a third person, and if found for defendant he shall recover costs, damages, and a penalty of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) of the plaintiff and his sureties on the bond of indemnity, if any have been given; but if found for plaintiff, he shall have judgment against the obligors in the replevy bond for the value of the property and costs of suit.","path":["Title 85. Debtor-Creditor Relationship","Chapter 3. Exempt Property"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.85.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:37Z","sha256":"be77a178fdc028cf2795c2720b757a356961597429880466cdfc4cbc9e16da86","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-3-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-3-11","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."}