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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-91 > 7 > 91-7-259§ 91-7-259. Foreign executor or administrator may sue.
Executors and administrators who have qualified in other states or countries may sue in the courts of this state, or may receive without suit and give a valid acquittance for any property of, or debts due to, their testators or intestates, after filing in the office of the clerk of the chancery court of the county where there may be some person indebted to the decedent or having some of his effects in possession, a certified copy of the record of the appointment and qualification of the executor or administrator according to the law of the state or country where he is qualified, and a certificate of the officer before whom he is liable to account as such that he is there liable to account for the thing sued for or received.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 60, art. 131; 1871, § 1189; 1880, § 2091; 1892, § 1925; 1906, § 2099; Hemingway's 1917, § 1767; 1930, § 1723; 1942, § 622.
