MS PT Juris study guide
MS PT Juris · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Mississippi PT Juris examination is the attorney licensing exam administered for candidates seeking admission to the Mississippi Bar, with a performance-test component that asks you to produce a practical lawyer work product from a closed file. This page is an independent study resource. The MS PT Juris study guide has 10 sections and about 3,003 words.
01Legal Reasoning and Analytical Skills
This domain tests whether your analysis is built from authority - issue-spotting, rule synthesis, application, and a defensible conclusion - rather than merely landing on the right answer. State the rule from the controlling source, synthesize it across two or three authorities, and separate holding from dicta.
324 words, about 2 min02Constitutional Law
This domain tests structural doctrine (federal power, judicial review, federalism), individual rights, and the tiered scrutiny that decides most disputes. Madison establishes review of legislative acts.
320 words, about 2 min03Contract Law
This domain tests formation, defenses, interpretation, performance and breach, remedies, and third-party issues, with the UCC/ common-law divide driving many answers. Offer must be definite and communicated; acceptance must be a mirror image at common law but need only be a definite and seasonable expression of acceptance under UCC §2-207.
291 words, about 1 min04Criminal Law and Procedure
This domain tests substantive elements (actus reus, mens rea, causation, defenses) and the constitutional rules governing investigation, interrogation, and trial. Mens rea categories: purposely, knowingly, recklessly, negligently.
288 words, about 1 min05Tort Law
This domain tests the negligence prima facie case, duty doctrine, causation, strict liability, products liability, and the intentional torts. Duty, breach, actual cause, proximate cause, and damages.
306 words, about 2 min06Property Law
This domain tests estates and future interests, landlord-tenant, concurrent ownership, servitudes, adverse possession, and recording. Fee simple absolute; life estate; fee simple determinable with possibility of reverter; fee simple subject to condition subsequent with right of entry; fee simple subject to executory limitation with shifting executory interest.
278 words, about 1 min07Evidence Law
This domain tests relevance, character limits, impeachment, hearsay and its exceptions, expert testimony, authentication, privileges, and the Confrontation Clause. Relevant evidence tends to make a fact more or less probable.
297 words, about 1 min08Civil Procedure
This domain tests jurisdiction, venue, pleading, joinder, discovery, dispositive motions, and preclusion - mostly under the Federal Rules. Specific jurisdiction requires purposeful availment, relatedness, and reasonableness.
300 words, about 2 min09Legal Research, Writing, and Ethics
This domain tests practical lawyering: finding and validating authority, writing it persuasively, and complying with professional conduct rules. Start with secondary sources to frame the issue, then move to statutes and annotated codes, regulations, and controlling cases.
298 words, about 1 min10Current Legal Developments and Jurisprudence
This domain tests whether you can track legal change reliably and place decisions within jurisprudential theory. Follow official reporters and advance sheets, court websites and dockets, agency guidance, and citators.
301 words, about 2 min