Mississippi Judgments & Liens Search

Mississippi judgment, lien and release records

A Mississippi debt can leave records in several offices without those records saying the same thing. The court file shows what was requested, what the judge decided and what happened afterward. A circuit clerk's judgment roll concerns enrollment. A chancery clerk records land instruments, including construction liens and releases. State tax liens have a Department of Revenue registry, while the Secretary of State maintains a separate UCC system. A name match in one collection does not establish what another office has recorded.

The practical task is to connect the records: identify the correct person or business, obtain the judgment or recorded instrument, follow its later entries, and inspect any satisfaction, cancellation, discharge or release. A payment receipt can answer a payment question without proving that an index has been updated. An instrument number locates a filing without deciding its legal effect. Keep the case number, county, judicial district, recording reference and dates together while comparing the actual documents.

The service descriptions below were checked on November 6, 2026. Mississippi's newly opened UCC platform, temporary county website interruptions and local office moves make that date significant. Published schedules retain their stated effective dates; a currently linked January 2020 fee sheet is identified as such. An online beginning year is given only where the responsible office states one. An empty form, a failed website response or a default search date does not establish a missing record.

Court papers, entry of judgment and the separate judgment roll

Start with the court that decided the matter. Mississippi's Secretary of State publishes a 2026 judicial directory and court calendar identifying twenty chancery districts and twenty-three circuit districts. Its court-system description also identifies county courts and county justice courts. These categories describe different jurisdictions; they are not interchangeable search locations. A chancery matter involving title, a circuit damages judgment and a justice-court collection case can require different clerk requests even when the same debtor appears in each.

A docket label can be shorter than the order it describes. Read the judgment to identify the parties actually bound, the relief awarded and any separate treatment of interest or costs. Then inspect later docket entries for amended relief, a stay, an appeal or a satisfaction. A judgment against one defendant does not become a judgment against every person listed in the caption. Likewise, a dismissal of one claim does not by itself establish that the entire case ended without an enforceable award.

For enrollment, ask the circuit clerk for the judgment-roll reference as well as the originating case file. When the judgment came from another court, identify that court, the rendition date and the certified document before requesting the receiving clerk's enrollment procedure. Jefferson's and Tunica's differently labeled services, described below, make the document's origin part of the request rather than an incidental detail.

Two current county schedules show why the description matters. Jefferson distinguishes an out-of-state or foreign-judgment filing from enrolling a judgment from another Mississippi court. Tunica uses a combined foreign/abstract enrollment label. Those labels and amounts should not be averaged or treated as proof of one statewide service. Obtain the clerk's classification of the specific submission before sending payment. Include the source court and the document you intend to present, rather than asking only what it costs to file a judgment.

Older judgments, renewal filings and enforcement records

For an older enrolled judgment, request the original judgment, enrollment reference, any later renewal filing and the resulting order or docket action. A cancellation or satisfaction entry belongs in the same chronology. If a bankruptcy or stay appears in that history, identify the actual order and its dates before assigning a present collection status.

Renewal and collection are also different clerk transactions. Jefferson's current circuit-clerk schedule expressly lists a notice or motion to renew, with a $35 charge, alongside garnishment and execution services. A payment for that filing does not establish that renewal was legally effective or that a required court action occurred. Request the filed notice or motion, proof of the applicable service and the court's resulting order or docket action. Check each county where an additional enrollment appears instead of assuming an update in the original case automatically changed every separate index.

The Secretary of State's Mississippi Law service identifies LexisNexis as the official code publisher and links the unannotated code. Its office page is a route to the law, not the text of the sections governing an individual judgment. The publisher did not provide a readable consolidated body during this review, so an exact current judgment-lien period or universal renewal procedure is not supplied here.

Rule 60(a) provides a route for clerical mistakes in judgments, orders and other record parts. The rule treats an appeal that has already transmitted the record differently and can require appellate leave. Rule 60(b) addresses specified grounds for relief from a final judgment; the first three listed grounds have a six-month outer limit and the rule also requires a reasonable time. Filing such a motion does not automatically suspend the judgment. A request to correct an index spelling should not be confused with a motion seeking to change the judgment itself.

Rule 77 describes the clerk's ordinary office availability and requires notice of entry in the circumstances stated there. Its provisions concerning a court being open for judicial business do not promise a twenty-four-hour public records counter. The advisory material also cautions that lack of notice does not ordinarily stop an appeal period. When timing matters, obtain the dated docket entry and the applicable order instead of relying on when a party says a letter or email arrived.

Construction claims, recording format and instrument-level fees

The land-record search should identify the filing itself, its parties, property description, claimed amount and any later release or enforcement record. A construction claimant's recorded notice is not the court's determination that the claim is valid. A lis pendens is another distinct instrument. A land-record UCC fixture filing should not be mistaken for an ordinary statewide financing statement. The document type affects both the search and the filing charge.

When reading a construction-lien file, record the claimed last-work date and the clerk's filing date separately. Look at the actual document and attachments, not only the index's short description. A disputed date or incomplete description can be legally significant even when the clerk accepted the instrument for recording. If a later complaint, order, discharge or release is referenced, obtain that additional document and match it to the same claimant, debtor and property.

DeSoto's current recording office links a schedule marked effective January 1, 2020. For its listed ordinary instruments, including construction liens and lis pendens, the published charge is $26 for the first five pages and $1 for each additional page. Its release and related-instrument category uses $27 for the first five pages, an additional $26 for each additional referenced book and page, and the additional-page charge. Those are instrument categories, not simply a first-page price and a universal surcharge.

A release affecting several original instruments can therefore require a different calculation from a release affecting one. Before totaling pages, identify all referenced instruments and ask how the clerk will count the filing. Do not multiply the ordinary document charge merely because several parties appear, or omit additional references because the new document fits on one sheet. A local calculator can help estimate a charge but cannot resolve a classification that the input does not describe.

Harrison's recording fee calculator explicitly calls its result an estimate and says the charge is calculated at physical recording. It separates ordinary instruments, releases and similar actions, mineral instruments, and mineral releases or assignments. A calculator category selected for convenience can produce the wrong estimate when the underlying document belongs to a different group.

The clerk's typed-document notice links a copy of House Bill 600 from the 2011 session, with a stated July 1, 2012 effective date. The linked Section 89-5-24 formatting text specifies ten-point type, a three-inch first-page top margin and three-quarter-inch other margins. It also contains exceptions, including court-issued certified copies, court-formatted documents, federal tax liens and UCC filings. Its $10 nonconformity provision and statement about validity must be read with those exceptions; the headline notice alone is not a complete account of the text.

Legibility and indexing deserve separate attention. A typed name beneath a signature, return address and property description serve different purposes from the recorder's stamp space. A larger margin does not cure an omitted legal description. Likewise, paying a nonconformity charge does not decide whether a claimant has satisfied a construction-lien statute. Check acceptance requirements with the receiving recorder and preserve the clerk's rejection reason if the submission is returned.

State tax liens, federal notices and the November 2026 UCC change

Mississippi Department of Revenue registry

The Department of Revenue's state tax lien explanation describes the January 1, 2015 change to the statewide registry and migration of unpaid older liens while preserving their priority. State tax liens can affect current and later-acquired property without listing individual parcels. The enrolled amount is not a current payoff: payments, interest and other changes can make the balance different. The department describes seven-year continuations, rather than a rule that every listed lien disappears after seven years.

That explanation also distinguishes cancellation after secured payment from other payment methods: next-business-day cancellation for the stated secured funds and up to fifteen days for the other described payments. An erroneous filing is taken to the department for review; enrollment or reenrollment is not the same appealable event as the underlying assessment. The department's literal Taxpayer Access Point lien-registry link reached a cookie-dependent screen during this review, so no individual search result is claimed.

The assessment appeal instructions provide sixty days from the notice for the described assessment, refund or credit dispute. They list TAP, email, mail and hand delivery, with midnight deadlines and postmark treatment explained there. The Board of Review expects an order within 180 days of the hearing. An assessment appeal to the Board of Tax Appeals generally has another sixty-day period after the mailed review order. These deadlines should not be substituted for a county recording correction or an appeal from a civil judgment.

For a payoff or registry correction, the department's current contact list identifies Lien Administration at 601-923-7391, P.O. Box 23338, Jackson, MS 39225-3338, with the physical office at 500 Clinton Center Drive, Clinton, MS 39056. Supply the tax-lien reference and identifying information through the department's authorized channel. A clerk's land-record counter cannot calculate a Department of Revenue payoff merely from a recorded name match.

State UCC records and county fixture filings

The Secretary of State's UCC office announced the replacement system for November 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM Central Standard Time. Its current go-live notice explains that the former application is no longer the place for new filings and directs users to the new platform. A saved bookmark to the previous service should therefore be checked against the office's current link before submitting or paying.

The office's UCC search instructions distinguish basic debtor or creditor searching from document viewing that requires a subscription. Both current service choices point to the Secretary of State's Business Services application. The application body could not be inspected in this review, so its authenticated screens, checkout total and any changed subscription terms are not asserted. The office's telephone routes are 601-359-1633 and 800-256-3494.

Since July 1, 2017, the office says UCC filings, including agricultural filings, must be generated in its system. Its instructions allow online payment or mailing the generated form with payment; an unrelated form is not treated as an acceptable substitute. The office also identifies the removal of the debtor-signature requirement for its agricultural filings from that date. These state filing instructions do not decide whether a particular record belongs in a county's fixture or land-record collection.

The current-linked UCC fee schedule gives $8 plus an unspecified electronic-government charge for online UCC1 and UCC3 filings. Its generated standard forms sent by mail use a $10 base charge, with $3 for attachments; the UCC1 line also adds $4 for each additional debtor. The farm UCC1F and UCC3F lines list their own corresponding charges. The schedule does not state a new-platform checkout total, and the unspecified electronic charge is not treated as zero.

The same schedule lists $10 plus $3 for attachments for a UCC5 information statement, $5 for a UCC11 information request and $2 per financing statement for the listed UCC11 copy product. A basic name search, a document copy, an information request and a newly filed statement are therefore separate products. When seeking an official search response, state the debtor name and requested product instead of assuming that a browser result has the status of a certified office response.

For a UCC result, save the original filing number and inspect amendments, continuations, assignments and termination-related records associated with it. The relevant question is what the filed record says about the collateral and parties. A termination entry is not a court order deciding every dispute over the underlying transaction. County land-record searches remain relevant where a fixture-related filing is indexed there; a state search alone should not be described as having checked that local collection.

Federal tax and federal court records

The IRS's federal tax lien explanation, updated September 14, 2026, separates the tax lien, the public notice and an actual levy. Full payment generally leads to release within thirty days. A discharge concerns particular property, subordination changes priority, and withdrawal concerns the public notice without necessarily extinguishing the debt. Those terms should remain distinct when describing the document found in a county index. The IRS lists 800-913-6050 for its Centralized Lien Operation.

PACER concerns federal cases, separate from MEC. On the review date its published electronic-access rate remains $0.10 per page, with a $3 document cap subject to listed exceptions and a quarterly waiver when charges are $30 or less. Its June 26, 2026 announcement sets a future rate of $0.12 per page and raises the quarterly waiver threshold to $40 beginning January 1, 2027, for a five-year temporary period. Those future figures are not the November 2026 price.

A federal bankruptcy file can help explain a stay, a plan, a discharge or a lien-specific order. It should be read alongside the county instrument rather than treated as a substitute for it. Match the creditor and collateral, and inspect the order that addresses the lien. The existence of a bankruptcy case does not by itself identify which property interest was released or which local index was later updated.

Exempt property, public access and correcting the right record

Homestead protection and a lien-specific bankruptcy order

The Southern District of Mississippi Bankruptcy Court's Judge Wilson opinions collection links two useful recent decisions. Its September 5, 2025 homestead opinion applies Section 85-3-21's 160-acre and $75,000 net-value provisions, together with the sale-proceeds and temporary-absence provisions in Sections 85-3-49 and 85-3-43. Ownership, occupancy and the relevant date matter. The court did not treat absence of a tax homestead application as independently defeating the execution exemption.

That decision rejected the particular creditor's objection after considering the evidence about a temporary rental, intended sale and residence. It does not make every rented or listed property exempt. For record research, distinguish the tax-assessor homestead file from the exemption issue decided in a collection or bankruptcy case. Obtain the order resolving that issue when it affects the property being examined; a tax-roll notation alone does not reproduce the court's analysis.

The court's March 31, 2026 lien-release opinion involved a vehicle creditor that filed a claim and accepted the confirmed Chapter 13 plan. The court granted relief after the claim was paid under the plan, despite the debtor's ineligibility for a new discharge following an earlier Chapter 7 case. The decision discusses acceptance under Section 1325(a)(5)(A), rather than treating every secured creditor as subject to the same result. It also distinguishes the statutory treatment of a principal-residence mortgage.

The lesson for a record request is to ask for the plan, confirmation order, relevant claim, payment evidence and lien-release order when those are the documents on which the outcome depends. A docket's general case status can omit the distinction that decided the secured claim. A satisfaction or release should be matched to the original debt and collateral before it is used to explain a county record.

Redaction and sealing

Section 5 separately describes sealed cases and sealed individual documents. A motion to seal and the document proposed for sealing are handled differently. If leave is denied, the proposed sealed document is not automatically treated as a public filing considered by the judge. The filer may need to submit it through the proper public route. For access research, the operative court order and document status matter more than the presence of a title in a docket list.

Several county land portals returned privacy text referring to Seminole County even though their headings identified Mississippi counties. That wording is not adopted here as Mississippi law or as the local clerk's redaction policy. An application template can display functional search controls while also containing text from a different jurisdiction. For a redaction or privacy request affecting a recorded instrument, contact the actual Mississippi custodian and identify the instrument instead of relying on that unrelated template passage.

Requests for administrative public records

The Ethics Commission publishes the Mississippi Public Records Act. Section 25-61-5 addresses written procedures and generally requires production or denial within seven working days, with particular written reasons when the records cannot be produced then and the stated fourteen-working-day framework and exceptions. Without adopted written procedures, it specifies one working day after a written request. Section 25-61-7 limits charges to the applicable actual costs. A denial must identify its exemption basis, and nonexempt portions are to be separated.

The Act preserves other confidentiality provisions and specifically points to judicial-record provisions; it does not erase a court's seal. The Commission's public-records complaint instructions describe submission of a complaint and any denial, a fourteen-day response by the public body, and mediation or an order. Section 25-61-13 also provides chancery-court review and does not require exhausting the Commission route before a direct court action. Identify the custodian and governing rule before selecting a challenge.

Draft the request around existing records: a specified instrument, judgment-roll entry, docket period, recorded release or written denial. Include known reference numbers and the desired copy format. Ask for an itemized estimate if searching, review, redaction or mailing will add to the copy price. That request is more precise than asking a clerk to decide whether a person has any debts or whether a parcel has perfect title.

For a recording-index error, preserve the displayed result and compare it with the instrument image. A wrong index name, omitted image or missing page may warrant a clerical review; a disputed lien amount or allegedly invalid judgment may require a court process instead. Some land applications provide an issue-notification control. Sending that notification does not file a release, appeal, objection or motion, and its submission should not be described as cancelling an instrument.

County recording, copying and court-file services

These local findings identify differences that affect an actual request. Published card charges, image prices and recording charges are kept with the office or application that states them. The county directory following this section supplies chancery and circuit contacts for all eighty-two counties, including offices whose fee sheets or applications did not return readable material. A county with only a contact entry is not being described as having no records.

Bolivar: separate district searches and subscription terms

The Bolivar Chancery Clerk's office describes business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and accepts cash, check, money order and cards, with a 2.35% card charge. Its linked Delta land-record service publishes $30 monthly or $330 annually for the subscription choices and $0.50 per page for the stated document access. It says data and images are updated at noon, 3:00 PM and after business closes. The courthouse index remains the official reference. The actual Cleveland search and Rosedale search are separate forms with name, book/page, date, instrument and land-description criteria. Neither form supplied a historical beginning date. A search in one district should not be reported as a search of both.

Benton, Chickasaw and Coahoma: identifying the correct counter

Benton's current county-hosted chancery information appears under a path named disaster-recovery, but the body identifies the chancery office at 190 Ripley Avenue, Ashland, and 662-224-6300. The office's land-record, chancery and tax-redemption functions should be requested by product rather than by the URL's unrelated label. No copy tariff or online date range was established from that body.

Chickasaw's clerk identifies Houston and Okolona district services and advises confirming the district for the property. Its published hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The two districts have different recording contacts, preserved in the directory below. A county name alone does not identify which counter holds the relevant district record.

Coahoma Chancery Clerk lists construction liens, federal tax liens and lis pendens among its records. Its route is 115 First Street, P.O. Box 98, Clarksdale, MS 38614, at 662-624-3000. The office links a public-records policy, but the returned PDF did not expose readable policy text. That link is not treated as proof of a particular response deadline or copying price.

Covington and DeSoto: official indexes and older scans

Covington's chancery office provides the Collins mailing route and 601-765-4242. Its recording application identifies 101 South Elm Avenue and hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with separate official-record and board-minute choices. It cautions that the online index is not the official courthouse index. The returned body supplied no complete historical coverage range, so a result should be tied to the collection actually searched.

DeSoto's recording department is at 311 West South Street, Suite C, Hernando, MS 38632, with the land-record number 662-469-8397. The office publishes 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM hours, but electronic recording is processed from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM; later submissions move to the next day. It identifies April 2020 as the addition of electronic recording and says the older online system received no new records after November 30, 2019. That cutoff is not the beginning date of the county's land records.

The office's January 2020 fee sheet lists $0.50 per staff-made copy page, $0.25 for self-made copies, a $1 document-certification charge and $5 per plat page. Its ordinary and release recording categories are described above. The sheet contains a classification problem for federal tax records: a broad $26 category mentions federal tax liens, while a specific line lists $10 for a federal lien and $12 for its release. Obtain the office's classification instead of choosing one figure without explaining the conflict.

For older material, the clerk's nonindexed-search instructions describe warranty-deed index books A through Z for 1836 through 1876. They warn that the 143 scanned pages are not a simple alphabetical list and that blank or duplicated pages can affect the image position. The current Acclaim search offers ordinary name and document searches as well as nonindexed material. An unsuccessful typed-name query does not establish that the older handwritten index contains no entry.

Forrest, George and Greene: department routing

Forrest's clerk separates recording, land and tax questions, and court-file assistance. At 641 Main Street in Hattiesburg, the published recording numbers are 601-545-6015 and 601-545-6014; land and prior-tax assistance uses 601-545-6046 or 601-545-6047, while the court section lists 601-545-6040 and 601-545-6041. The linked recording schedules did not produce readable fee text in this review. Using the department responsible for the document is more informative than applying a fee found on a different county's sheet.

George's Chancery Clerk is at 355 Cox Street, Lucedale, with 601-947-4801 and 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM hours. Its officially linked records service separates current land records, the historic virtual index, redemption and fraud alerts. It publishes a 3.5% online credit-card charge with a $2 minimum, described as nonrefundable. The office's general statement about years of scanning does not identify an exact first year for every record type.

Greene County's chancery information identifies construction liens, federal tax liens and lis pendens, with P.O. Box 610, Leakesville, MS 39451, and 601-394-2377. That office description establishes the custodian, but supplies no basis for assigning a statewide subscription price or a digital-image starting date to Greene.

Hancock and Harrison: coverage, vault access and district records

Hancock's Chancery Clerk says its free online land search covers May 2005 to the present, with new uploads at 7:00 PM daily. Copies have a charge that the body does not quantify. Older records are available through computers at the annex. The linked application returned no readable search body during this check, so the coverage statement comes from the clerk, not from a completed application query. A pre-May 2005 request needs the older-record route.

Harrison's current office notice says the Gulfport vault is closed to the public and gives 228-865-4021 for assistance. A separate records-vault page publishes 228-865-4121. Those numbers are not silently harmonized: use the closure notice's contact when arranging current access and describe the record needed. The recording counters remain separately identified for District 1 in Gulfport and District 2 in Biloxi.

The clerk's recording schedule describes the ordinary first-five-page charge and additional-page formula, as well as separate release and referenced-instrument charges. It lists $0.50 for clerk-made copies, $0.25 for self-made copies and a $1 certification line. The schedule's historical list of counties using an archive charge should not be treated as a current classification of every Mississippi county. Harrison's own instrument and district determine the request being priced.

The records-vault description says staff assist with locating and copying records but do not perform title research or lien searches. It identifies older records, many extending to 1841, without saying every such record is online. In the historic virtual index, the instructions direct the reader to locate the book and page in the scanned index and then select the corresponding official record. The application's starting screen does not establish one universal historical cutoff.

Harrison's clerk links the county's public-records form and policy. It routes requests through the Minutes Clerk, including publicrecordsrequest@co.harrison.ms.us, and asks an email sender to obtain receipt confirmation. The policy lists $0.50 per copied page plus applicable search, review, retrieval and mailing costs, with advance estimates. Its internal provisions describe both seven-working-day responses and later production steps; read those alongside the controlling Act rather than promising immediate delivery. It also distinguishes producing existing records from conducting requested research.

Itawamba: two dated moves

Itawamba's current chancery notice states that the clerk moved on October 1, 2026 to 204 West Main Street, Fulton, in the former T. Victor Bishop building. A separate notice places court sessions at the Connection Center at Itawamba Community College, 700 West Main Street, beginning November 2, 2026 until further notice. The service body gives 662-862-3931; the state directory has an older chancery number. Legacy text still mentions 201 West Main, so confirm mailing and counter instructions against the moved-office notice. The office publishes $26 for the first five recording pages plus $1 per additional page, and a $27 release/modification charge described by attached instrument number. Court-session location, clerk filing location and recording reference are three different details.

Jackson, Jasper and Jefferson: different custodians and fee labels

Jackson County's Chancery Clerk identifies the land-record custodian at 2915 Canty Street, Suite R, Pascagoula, MS 39567-4239, with mail to P.O. Box 998, MS 39568-0998. The primary number is 228-769-3131; 228-769-1680 is separately labeled secondary. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The reviewed body also describes board, audit and financial functions, which should not be confused with a civil judgment file held by the circuit clerk.

Jasper's two chancery districts have different counters: 1782 Highway 503 in Paulding for District 1 and 27 West Eighth Street in Bay Springs for District 2. The published numbers are 601-727-4940 and 601-764-3368. The county links a fee sheet and a district-section document, but their substantive contents could not be read during this review. Determine the property district with the clerk; the existence of a downloadable district file does not establish that its boundaries were verified here.

Jefferson's Circuit Clerk publishes $146 for a foreign judgment and $5 for enrollment of a judgment from another Mississippi court. Its schedule lists $35 for garnishment, examination, a renewal notice or motion, and execution; $1 for cancellation; $2 for a certified document; $10 for a docket search by name; and $25 for the listed Acts of Congress certification. The civil-filing line is $161. These are different services, not optional components of one automatic charge. The circuit office is at 1483 Main Street, Fayette, with P.O. Box 305 and 601-786-3422. The separate chancery body contains older low recording figures that are not adopted as a verified current land tariff.

Kemper, Lafayette and Lamar: payment and platform scope

Kemper's chancery office identifies the land, construction-lien, federal-tax-lien and lis-pendens functions, with P.O. Box 188, De Kalb, MS 39328, and 601-743-8375. Its linked January 2026 public-records policy did not return a readable body. A current-looking filename alone does not establish the policy's actual fees or exceptions.

Lafayette's clerk distinguishes MEC court implementation from Delta land records. Its notice gives June 19, 2023 for the clerk's MEC transition and July 3, 2023 for attorney filing. Those dates are not stated as the beginning of every historical court record. A May 23, 2023 payment notice says cards are accepted and personal checks are not. The office is at 300 North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, with P.O. Box 1240 and 662-234-2131, open 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Its linked fee scan remained unreadable, so no tariff is inferred from the payment notice.

Lamar's chancery service describes direct, reverse and section indexes and a separate tax-redemption function. The office is at 403 Main Street, Purvis, with P.O. Box 247 and 601-794-8504. Its fee instructions require advance payment and describe additional pages after the first five and an added $26 for each additional referenced book and page in the relevant marginal-reference category. The embedded full tariff did not return readable text. Its land application exposes name, book, instrument and property fields, but the default date of 1800 is a form value, not verified coverage.

Lauderdale, Leake and Lee: images, historic books and copy requests

Lauderdale's court directory gives the chancery route at 2600 Courthouse Boulevard, Meridian, MS 39301, and 601-482-9701. Its linked records application identifies Room 1079, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM hours and a 3.5% online card charge with a $2 minimum. The charge concerns that online payment service; it does not supply an unstated per-page or certification price.

Leake's clerk directs land-record questions to 601-267-7371, with P.O. Box 72, Carthage, MS 39051. The linked record-service landing screen separates the historic index from the current instrument service. Its virtual-index instructions explain the two-step process of locating a book/page entry and selecting the scanned official record. The current-record branch returned an empty application shell. Neither response establishes that a particular named party was searched or that all years were included.

Lee's Chancery Clerk publishes $0.25 per self-made copy page, $0.50 per staff-made page and $1 to certify a document. Its mail-copy instructions call for the document identification, a check or money order payable to the clerk and a self-addressed stamped envelope. The mailing route is P.O. Box 7127, Tupelo, MS 38802, with 662-432-2100. The office also describes card acceptance with a 2.9% charge for the listed land, tax and court payments. Its recording-fee Word document could not be read, so the established copy prices are not expanded into an unverified recording schedule. The office says it does not supply blank land instruments.

Lincoln and Lowndes: assessment data versus deed images

Lincoln's chancery office is at 301 South First Street, Room 111, Brookhaven, with 601-835-3411. The linked property service initially opens an assessment search; its separate Deeds and Records form provides grantor/grantee, book/page, filing date, instrument and land-description criteria. Scanned images require a user ID and login. The clerk-linked internet-access request form lists fax 601-835-3423 and additional-information numbers 601-835-3452 or 601-835-3416. The form asks for personal and account information; obtain current handling instructions from the clerk before transmitting it. An assessment result is not the deed image.

Lowndes publishes land-record coverage from February 2002 onward. Its clerk is at 505 Second Avenue North, Columbus, with P.O. Box 684, MS 39703, and 662-329-5800. The office states 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM hours. The linked application has an instrument search and a historic-index choice, but its displayed default of 1800 does not replace the clerk's February 2002 statement. The fee PDF returned image-only material, leaving the full recording tariff unestablished in this review.

Madison, Monroe and Neshoba: interpreting the actual destination

Madison's temporary service notice reports a website-hosting outage while phone and email service continue. It supplies alternate service links and a November 11 closure notice. The land-record application returned its search controls despite the broader website issue. Its presence does not establish that every attached image was retrieved, and the unrelated Seminole privacy text is excluded from the Mississippi guidance. Preserve the instrument reference when asking the office about an unavailable image.

Monroe's county directory places the chancery office at 201 West Commerce Street, Aberdeen, and lists 662-369-8143. The circuit office is separately located at 301 South Chestnut Street. Several apparent fee-navigation choices returned the same general body rather than a tariff. The courthouse addresses establish distinct office routes without establishing a fee that the body does not state.

Neshoba's current elected-office route lists 401 East Beacon Street, Suite 107, Philadelphia, MS 39350, and 601-656-3581. Its link labeled for land records opens a Delta tax-property search with tax year, owner, parcel and PPIN fields. Those fields establish assessment-search functionality, not a judgment-roll or recorded-lien search. Ask the chancery office for the instrument index or copy when the requested record is a deed, lien or release.

Oktibbeha, Panola and Pearl River: address and tariff limits

Oktibbeha's chancery department identifies 101 East Main Street, Starkville, and 662-323-5834. The general county footer's 108 West Main address should not replace the department's address. Its land-record form is separate from the linked redemption service. No full historical image range was established from the returned controls, and the application's foreign-county privacy paragraph is not used as local policy.

Panola's chancery contacts distinguish 215 South Pocahontas Street in Sardis, 662-487-2070, from 151 Public Square in Batesville, 662-563-6205. A land-development header elsewhere in the body gives another address; it is not the chancery counter. Identify the judicial district and record type when arranging inspection. The state directory separately provides the circuit-clerk contacts for the two districts.

Pearl River's schedule is marked effective January 1, 2020 and updated August 12, 2020. It lists the ordinary $26 first-five-page charge with $1 for additional pages, and the $27 release category with additional referenced-instrument charges. Its copy table has misaligned or repeated certification labels, so the displayed $1 is not adopted here as an unqualified certification formula. The office's payment instructions identify exact cash, money order, cashier's check and card with identification. Its separate mineral categories should not be substituted for an ordinary construction-lien or release charge.

Perry and Pike: payment restrictions and a dated platform cutoff

Perry's clerk publishes cash, check or money-order payment and says cards are not accepted. The chancery counter is at 103 South Main Street, New Augusta, with P.O. Box 198 and 601-964-8398. The state directory contains an inconsistent chancery mailing ZIP, so confirm the address before mailing. The linked record application presents instrument and property fields but no verified historical start date. A $0 or blank amount should not be inferred from its purchase controls. The two linked fee scans did not expose readable prices.

Pike's former fee route now resolves to a temporary county service directory, updated October 27, 2026. It gives 601-783-3362 and P.O. Box 309 for chancery, and 601-783-2581 and P.O. Box 31 for circuit, at the Magnolia courthouse. The directory distinguishes the current deed application from the older land-record service through July 30, 2021. A search limited to that older service cannot establish what was filed after the cutoff.

The same county service directory links a separate judgment-roll form. It provides distinct fields for rendition, enrollment and satisfied/cancelled dates, along with name, case, lien and book/page references. Those fields illustrate why a judgment date should not be substituted for the date of enrollment or satisfaction. The form was inspected, but no person's case or lien result was queried for this guide.

Prentiss, Quitman and Scott: document requests and actual service links

Prentiss's chancery office lists 100 North Main Street, P.O. Box 477, Booneville, MS 38829, and 662-728-8151. Its January 2020 fee sheet supplies ordinary and release formulas, $0.50 staff copies, $0.25 self-service copies and $1 certification. The sheet's archive-charge county list is historical and is not treated as a current statewide list. The linked Prentiss application separately publishes a 3.5% online card charge with a $2 minimum and offers official records, board minutes and fraud alerts.

Quitman's current directory places both clerks at 220 Chestnut Street, Marks, but distinguishes chancery in Suite 2 at 662-326-2661 from circuit in Suite 4 at 662-326-8003. Supply the suite and office when mailing a judgment-roll or land-record request. The shared street address is not evidence of one combined document collection.

Scott's chancery information, updated October 28, 2026, gives 100 East Main Street, Forest, P.O. Box 630, and 601-469-1922. It identifies electronic recording through Simplifile and CSC. The linked recording and search instructions describe recording in person or through the designated electronic services, but the returned body did not provide a working public index link. An electronic submission provider is not automatically the public-search application.

Sunflower, Tate and Tunica: court fees versus land-service charges

Washington's chancery office provides P.O. Box 309, Greenville, MS 38702, and 662-332-1595. Its linked fee sheet remained image-only. For neighboring Sunflower, the county directory identifies distinct chancery and circuit contacts. The Circuit Clerk's own service description expressly includes judgments and liens and gives P.O. Box 880, Indianola, with 662-887-1252. The description establishes the court-record route without publishing an enrollment or certification tariff.

Tate's chancery information, updated November 4, 2026, describes free land-record searching through an account, watermarked copies and free courthouse terminals. It publishes a 2.35% office card charge. The linked online land service instead lists a 3.5% card charge with a $2 minimum. Those are different payment channels. The application confirms 662-562-5661 at 201 South Ward Street, Senatobia. Other numbers and ambiguous copy wording elsewhere in the county body are not silently combined into one tariff. A free search does not establish free certified copies.

Tunica's county department directory links its Circuit Clerk. The clerk's fee list states $161 for a civil filing, $35 for garnishment, $5 for the combined foreign/abstract enrollment label, $1 for cancellation, $35 for renewal, $5 for an abstract and $10 for a record search. It also lists copies at $1 and certified copies at $3.50 without a complete per-page or additive formula. Those two lines are not converted into an assumed $4.50 charge. The enrollment label differs from Jefferson's schedule, so an out-of-state filing needs product confirmation. The clerk's office is at 1300 School Street, Tunica, with 662-363-2842; unrelated design-template material in the home body is excluded.

Humphreys, Winston and Yazoo: court contacts and historical limits

The Ninth Chancery Court's clerk directory identifies Humphreys at 102 Castleman Street, Suite 2, Belzoni, with P.O. Box 547 and 662-247-1740. It separately identifies Sunflower's chancery contact at 200 Main Street, Indianola, P.O. Box 988, and 662-887-4703. These are chancery-file contacts, distinct from Sunflower's circuit judgment service described above.

Winston's clerk describes a project involving pre-1920 records and links an online recording service. That project description does not establish a current complete online collection before 1920. The linked application returned an empty shell during this review. Use the clerk at P.O. Drawer 69, Louisville, MS 39339, 662-773-3631, to identify the requested volume and whether an image or paper inspection is available.

Yazoo's current clerk information gives 211 East Broadway, P.O. Box 68, Yazoo City, MS 39194, and 662-746-2661. Its officeholder information agrees with the 2026 state directory while an association entry differs. The office route is retained without turning that name discrepancy into a change to the records' custody or availability.

Chancery, circuit and justice-court contacts in all eighty-two counties

The Secretary of State's State and County Directory publication page links the 2026 county-office directory. The clerk rows below were read for all eighty-two counties. The source contains ninety-two chancery contacts, ninety-two circuit contacts and eighty-seven justice-court clerk or administrator entries, including district rows. These are directory entries rather than a claim that each row represents a separate staffed counter.

Bolivar, Carroll, Chickasaw, Harrison, Hinds, Jasper, Jones, Panola, Tallahatchie and Yalobusha have the two judicial districts identified in the directory. A district label is retained with its contact instead of merging the two. The justice-court column preserves the directory's clerk or administrator route. County-court cases should be identified as such when asking the circuit office which clerk maintains the particular file.

Addresses marked as boxes or drawers are mailing addresses. The table incorporates the current DeSoto recording number, Harrison recording counters, Itawamba move and Kemper number described above. Carroll's state directory prints the same numbers for chancery and circuit in each district; that publication discrepancy remains qualified. Perry's inconsistent chancery ZIP is withheld pending confirmation. A directory telephone establishes a contact route without promising a particular copy fee or online search history.

When a local portal is unavailable, use the office contact with the document reference and requested format. Do not substitute a tax-assessor result for an enrolled judgment, or a circuit case number for a chancery recording reference. A failed remote request does not answer whether an older volume can be inspected at the courthouse.