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MS SB2771

Bill

Status

Failed

2/23/2016

Primary Sponsor

Briggs Hopson

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Origin

Senate

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Clarifies that Mississippi chancery courts have full jurisdiction over title disputes, including suits to confirm or quiet title, cancel deeds, resolve adverse possession claims, and decree possession, rents, and compensation for improvements and taxes

  • Allows chancery courts to proceed with title dispute cases even when the United States of America may have a claimed right, title, or interest in the property, provided such claims do not dismiss the case but are deemed amended to conform to the law

  • Requires plaintiffs to deraign (trace) title for at least 60 consecutive years if title passed out of sovereign ownership more than 75 years before the action commenced

  • Mandates that final judgments in title cases include legal property descriptions and be recorded in county land records and indexed as conveyance instruments

  • Protects federal sovereign immunity by prohibiting state court orders from prejudicing or affecting any U.S. government rights, titles, or interests in real estate, with federal law (including the Federal Color of Title Act) governing how such judgments may be credited by the United States

Legislative Description

Title disputes; clarify jurisdiction of state courts in certain.

Last Action

Died In Committee

2/23/2016

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division A2/8/2016

Full Bill Text

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