{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-37","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 85-7-37","heading":"Affidavit.","body":"“State of Mississippi, County “Before me, , a justice of the peace of the said county, makes oath that he was employed by during the year A. D. , as a laborer, and as such, and under his employment, assisted to make a crop of cotton and corn, which yielded bales of cotton and bushels of corn, which are now in the possession of , and the same is at , in said county; and that affiant is, by his contract and services, entitled to one-half of said cotton and corn, the same being of the value of dollars, which the said withholds from him [or whatever may be the claim]. Affiant claims a lien on all of said cotton and corn for the recovery of his share or interest therein, and that and claim a like lien thereon. Affiant prays process according to law. “ ” “Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day of , A. D. “, J. P.”\nClick to view","path":["Title 85. Debtor-Creditor Relationship","Chapter 7. Liens","Article 1. Crops, Advances, Lumber, Timber, Foals, Calves and Water Craft.","Suits to Enforce Liens on Crops, Advances, Lumber, Timber, Foals, Calves and Water Craft"],"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":"43e2e430a00df27edfc2674dff3c30d1cfa88f8995dc9b02fa15197c337f9956","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-35","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-39","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."}