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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 119
Corporate or Non-Person Party - Fairness
A [corporation/partnership/city/county/other entity] is a party in this lawsuit. [Name of
non-person party] is entitled to the same fair and impartial treatment that you would give to a
person. You must decide this case with the same fairness that you would give to a person.
When I use words like “person” or “he” or “she” in these instructions to refer to a party,
those instructions also apply to [name of non-person party].
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 119 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
a7ee3403cf74918b388b5cd86ae277fb34432b814ae52e72dcefdaf3b7bbb839
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