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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-9 > 5 > 9-5-97§ 9-5-97. Additional powers of chancellor in vacation.
In the matter of ordering, decreeing and confirming sales of real and personal property of decedents, or of minors, or of persons of unsound mind, and in all other matters testamentary or of administration, in minors' business, matters affecting persons of unsound mind, and in the matter of the removal of disabilities of minority, the chancellors of the several districts of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to do in vacation all things, and to exercise all the powers in such matters that could be done by them in term time; and all laws governing the action of the chancery court in such matters, and the process and procedure therein, shall apply when the chancellor shall act therein in vacation; but before any sale of real estate shall be confirmed by the chancellor in vacation, the parties in interest shall have notice thereof as provided by law in the matter of confirming sales by chancellors in vacation.
Sources: Codes, 1906, § 507; Hemingway's 1917, § 263; 1930, § 322; 1942, § 1230; Laws, 1900, ch. 92.
