Within three (3) months after the final determination of any suit, or if an appeal shall have been taken, then within three (3) months after receiving a certificate of the affirmance of the judgment, the clerk shall enter in a well-bound book, to be kept for the purpose, a full and complete record of all the proceedings in the suit, if the title to the real estate be involved or affected, and if not, only on the order of the court. On failure to make a final record required by law or the order of the court, the clerk may be fined, as for a contempt, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each failure; and he shall also be liable in damages to any party injured. A final record shall not be made of any suit without a judgment on the merits. Such record may be kept on computer as provided in Section 9-7-171.Codes, 1892, § 640; 1906, § 697; Hemingway's 1917, § 476; 1930, § 485; 1942, § 1423; Laws, 1994, ch. 521, § 18; Laws, 1994, ch. 458, § 6, eff. 7/1/1994.
Mississippi Legal Code