AnalysisSimilar to a bill recently enacted in Arkansas during the current legislative session, Mississippi has enacted House Bill 928 which allows a “scrivener’s error affidavit” to be completed, executed, notarized and recorded in the land records to correct information in an instrument affecting the title to real property. HB 928 prescribes that only an attorney who was involved in preparing a document in the chain of title to the real property in question may prepare the scrivener’s affidavit. Prior to recordation, the scrivener’s affidavit must be sworn and acknowledged before a Notary or other officer authorized to administer oaths.