{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-8-1002","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 91-8-1002","heading":"Damages for breach of trust.","body":"(a) A trustee who commits a breach of trust is liable to the beneficiaries affected for:\n(1) The greater of:\n(A) The amount required to restore the value of the trust property and trust distributions to what they would have been had the breach not occurred; or\n(B) The profit the trustee made by reason of the breach; and\n(2) Any measure of damages otherwise provided by law.\n(b) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (b), if more than one (1) trustee is liable to the beneficiaries for a breach of trust, a trustee is entitled to contribution from the other trustee or trustees. A trustee is not entitled to contribution if the trustee was substantially more at fault than another trustee or if the trustee committed the breach of trust in bad faith or with reckless indifference to the purposes of the trust or the interests of the beneficiaries. A trustee who received a benefit from the breach of trust is not entitled to contribution from another trustee to the extent of the benefit received.","path":["Title 91. Trusts and Estates","Chapter 8. Mississippi Uniform Trust Code","Article 10. Liability of Trustees and Rights of Persons Dealing with Trustee."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.91.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:53Z","sha256":"5ade800476ca6ff2fa85ac49b3f8c69176276f22f021a9d1204d507d62c9d0d9","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-8-1001","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-8-1003","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."}