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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-7 > 5 > 7-5-39§ 7-5-39. To represent the state and state officers in suits.
The attorney general shall also represent the state, in person or by his assistant, as counsel in all suits against the state in other courts than the supreme court at the seat of government, and he shall, in like manner, act as counsel for any of the state officers in suits brought by or against them in their official capacity, touching any official duty or trust and triable at the seat of government. He may pursue the collection of any claim or judgment in favor of the state outside of the state.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 252; 1892, § 190; 1906, § 196; Hemingway's 1917, § 3484; 1930, § 3670; 1942, § 3841.
