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Mississippi
Mississippi Liens for Service to Horses
NOTE: Mississippi has a breeder's lien. It has no veterinarian's
or farrier's liens, but the agister's lien might be stretched
to cover boarding charges for residential veterinary or farrier
care.
I. Breeder's Lien
MISSISSIPPI CODE
TITLE 85. DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIP
CHAPTER 7. LIENS LIENS ON CROPS, ADVANCES, LUMBER, TIMBER,
FOALS, CALVES AND WATER CRAFT
§ 85-7-5. Owner of stallion, jackass, or bull; lien on foal or calf.
The owner of a stallion, jackass or bull shall have a lien
on each foal begotten by his stallion or jackass, and on each
calf begotten by his bull, for the price agreed to be paid
therefor, and such lien shall be prior to all other incumbrances
on such foal or calf and shall bind the same even in the hands
of subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers for a valuable
consideration without notice; but the said lien shall expire
twelve months after the birth of said foal or calf unless
within that time judicial proceedings have been begun to enforce
the lien. If the owner shall have falsely represented the
breeding, registration, or pedigree of his stallion, jackass
or bull, by advertisement or otherwise, he shall not have
a lien on the foal begotten by such stallion or jackass, or
on the calf of such bull, as against any person who acted
under the belief that such representation was true; and, in
such case, the owner of the animal shall not have any claim
for the service of the stallion, jackass, or bull.
Mississippi Liens for the Care of Horses
II. Agister's Lien
MISSISSIPPI CODE
TITLE 85. DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIP
CHAPTER 7. LIENS MECHANICS AND STABLEKEEPERS
§ 85-7-103. Stable keepers; lien on animals.
The owner of every livery stable, sale stable, feed stable
or public pasture shall have a lien on every horse, mule,
cow, or other animal for the price of feeding, grooming, training,
grazing, or keeping the same, at the instance of the owner
of the animal, and shall have the right to retain possession
of the animal until such price be paid. If the price be not
paid in ten days after it is due, the person to whom it is
owing may commence suit therefor before a justice of the peace
where the principal of the amount does not exceed two hundred
dollars, and in the circuit court where it exceeds that sum,
setting forth the amount of the debt, how it accrued, and
a description of the animal; and, upon proof of the debt that
it is due for feeding, grooming, training, grazing or keeping
the animal, he shall be entitled to judgment against the owner
for the amount due and sued for and the price of feeding,
grooming, training, grazing and keeping the animal since the
institution of the suit if the whole amount do not exceed
the jurisdiction of the court, with costs as in other cases,
and to a special order and execution for the sale of the property
upon which the lien exists for the payment of such judgment
and costs, and to an execution, as in other cases, for the
residue of what remains unpaid after sale of the property.
The lien created by this section shall be subordinate to any
prior encumbrance on such animal of which the owner of the
stable had notice, actual or constructive, unless the animal
were fed, groomed, trained, grazed or kept by the consent
of the encumbrancer.
§ 85-7-105. Remedy where lienholder loses possession
to owner.
If the lienholders mentioned in sections 85-7-101 and 85-7-103
part with possession of the property, they shall retain their
liens while the property remains in the hands of the owner,
or one deriving title or possession through him, with notice
that the price of the labor and materials or the price of
feeding, grooming, training, grazing or keeping the same was
unpaid, and may enforce the same in like manner as is provided.
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