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· 10/15/1910

Ex parte Stanfield

Citations

  • 98 Miss. 214
  • 53 So. 538

Syllabus

<p>1. Code 1906, §§ 506, 507. D'eoree m vacation. Power to vacate.</p> <p>Chancellors have no power to set aside and vacate in term time a decree made in vacation, removing disabilities of minority. Code 1906, § 507, confers upon chancellors the power to make and enter a decree removing disabilities of minority in vacation as fully as he could do in term time and section 506 provides for the entry of • such decree on the minute books of the court in which the case is tried and that they shall have the same force and effect as if entered and recorded in term time, and appeals may be had therefrom as in other eases.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Such decrees when signed by the chancellor and delivered to the clerk to be entered are beyond recall and stand as if made during a term of court and court had adjourned.</p>

Judges: Anderson

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