Rule 2. ONE FORM OF ACTION

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Mississippi Rules of Court › Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure › Miss. R. Civ. P. 2

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There shall be one form of action to be known as “civil action.”

Advisory Committee Notes

Rule 2 does not affect the various remedies that previously have been available in the

courts of Mississippi. The abolition of the forms of action furnishes a single, uniform

procedure by which a litigant may present a claim in an orderly manner to a court empowered

to give whatever relief is appropriate and just; the substantive and remedial principles that

applied prior to the advent of these rules are not changed. What was an action at law before

these rules is still a civil action founded on legal principles and what was a bill in equity

before these rules is still a civil action founded upon equitable principles.

CHAPTER II. COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION:

SERVICE OF PROCESS, PLEADINGS,

MOTIONS, AND ORDERS

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