How long before eviction in Mississippi?
Tenant protection: Weak5 of 9 checked
Last verified 2026-09-28From notice to removal
Each stage has its own timing. A landlord notice alone does not authorize removal.
- 01Notice
3 business days
- 02Court stage
Timing not verified
- 03Writ wait
7 days before execution
- 04Removal
Enforcement follows a court order
At a glance
- Grace period before a late fee
- Not verified
- Late fee cap
- Not verified
- Pay-or-quit notice
- 3 business days
- Recorded court-stage timing
- Not verified
- Wait before the writ can be executed
- 7 days
- Can paying stop it before judgment?
- Yes
- Can paying stop it after judgment?
- Yes
- Lockouts without a court order banned?
- Not verified
- Record sealing available?
- Not verified
- Right to counsel
- none
- Fastest lawful timeline
- 10 daysNot independently verified. Figure from the Eviction Research Network's state eviction timeframes dataset, as of 2026-07-13. We have not yet checked it against the statutes.
Can I stop it by paying?
Before judgment: Yes. For nonpayment of rent, a Mississippi landlord may send the tenant a notice under the eviction law. The notice must say the lease will end unless the tenant pays within three days. Paying in full within that three-day window keeps the lease in place.
After judgment: Yes. A possession judgment is a court order letting the landlord retake the home. Suppose that judgment rests only on unpaid rent, not on any other lease violation. Then the judge will not issue a warrant for removal, a court order that tells the sheriff or constable to remove the tenant. That happens if the tenant pays all the rent and other sums the judgment awards by the court-ordered move-out date. It also happens if the landlord accepts that payment after the move-out date. Mississippi law requires the landlord to accept full payment in good faith (meaning honestly) if the tenant offers it by the move-out date.
Where to get help
- Free legal help
- Mississippi has not enacted a right to counsel in eviction cases. The NCCRC enacted-legislation database contains no entry for Mississippi.
Sources
- Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-13(5)(a). If you have not paid rent under your lease, the landlord can send a notice giving you three days to pay before the lease ends.
- Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-39(1)-(2). After a judgment for the landlord, the court gives you seven days to move out. It can set a shorter or longer time if there is an emergency. After that date, the landlord can ask for a warrant of removal (a court order telling the sheriff to remove you). The judge must issue it right away unless you have already paid what you owe by the move-out date.
- Miss. Code Ann. §§ 89-8-35(1), 89-8-41(3). The court summons can set the hearing for any day the court names, with no minimum notice period stated in this law. If the hearing is delayed, the case must still reach a hearing within thirty days of the day it was filed.
- Thomas, Tim, and the Eviction Research Network (2026). Time to evict: State statutory eviction timelines (verified edition, July 2026) [Data set]. Eviction Research Network, University of California, Berkeley.
- Primary statute