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1989 Mississippi Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1989)

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MIKE MOORE
ATTORNEY GENERAL

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
OFFICIAL ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OPINION

September 20, 1989
Mr. Jerry A. Thomas
County Administrator
Post Office Box 686
Jackson, Mississippi 39205
Re: Justice Court Clerk's authority
to issue post judgment writs
without a judge's order

Dear Mr. Thomas:

Attorney General Mike Moore has received your letter
request and has assigned it to me for research and reply.
your letter you ask the following three questions:

QUESTION NO. 1:

Whether   Section    9-11-27  of   the
Mississippi Code    of 1972 Annotated)
empowering the Clerk of the Justice
Court to issue process, authorizes the
Clerk of the Justice Court to issue
writs   of    garnishment,    writs   of
execution,   writs   of   replevin   and
warrants of removal without a prior
written order from the Justice Court
Judge? More specifically, does the word
issue in said Code Section empower the
Clerk of the Justice Court to sign these
documents?

RESPONSE: In response to this question your attention is
respectfully invited to S9-11-27, Miss. Code Ann. 1972 as
amended, which reads in pertinent part as follows:

The clerk   and deputy   clerks shall be
empowered to file and record actions and
pleadings, .    . . to issue warrants in
criminal cases upon direction by a justice
court judge in the county, . . . and to issue

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

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