{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-89-5-103","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 89-5-103","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In this article:\n(1) “Document” means information that is:\n(a) Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and\n(b) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the chancery clerk.\n(2) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.\n(3) “Electronic document” means a document that is received by the chancery clerk in an electronic form.\n(4) “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.\n(5) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.\n(6) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.","path":["Title 89. Real and Personal Property","Chapter 5. Recording of Instruments","Article 3. Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.89.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:48Z","sha256":"c7a77082461e1f34bc7d56294b18d3a6bd885344cf213e8cf092f6057eef0773","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-89-5-101","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-89-5-105","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."}