§ 15-1-11. Limitations applicable to actions to recover land for defect in instrument

MS Code § 15-1-11 (2019) (N/A)

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(1) where it has not been signed by the proper officer of any corporation;

(2) where the corporate seal of the corporation has not been impressed on such instrument;

(3) where the record does not show such corporate seal;

(4) because the record does not show authority therefor by the board of directors and stockholders (or either of them) of a corporation;

(5) where such instrument was executed and delivered by a corporation which had been dissolved or whose charter had expired, or whose corporate franchise had been cancelled, withdrawn or forfeited;

(6) where the executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, master in chancery, agent or trustee, or other agency making such instrument, signed or acknowledged the same individually instead of in his representative or official capacity;

(7) where such instrument is executed by a trustee without record of judicial or other ascertainment of the authority of such trustee or of the verity of the facts therein recited;

(8) where the officer taking the acknowledgment of such instrument having an official seal did not affix the same to the certificate of acknowledgment;

(9) where the notarial seal is not shown of record;

(10) where the wording of the consideration may or might create an implied lien in favor of the grantor (by this is not meant an express vendor’s lien retained).

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