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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-11 > 35 > 11-35-57§ 11-35-57. Executors and administrators may be garnished.
Executors and administrators may be garnished for a debt due by their testator or intestate to the defendant; but judgment shall not be entered in such case against an executor or administrator until the lapse of six months after the grant of letters; and they may be garnished as having effects due to legatees or distributees; but judgment shall not be rendered against them in such case, except with their consent, until after a final settlement of the estate.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 52, art. 24; 1871, § 1485; 1880, § 2457; 1892, § 2151; 1906, § 2359; Hemingway's 1917, § 1954; 1930, § 1860; 1942, § 2812.
