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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 512.200

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.

Such recognizance must be signed by the parties entering into the same, and be approved by the associate circuit judge, and may be in the following form:

We the undersigned, ______ and ______, acknowledge ourselves indebted to ______ in the sum of ______ dollars, to be void upon this condition. Whereas, ______ has made application for a trial de novo from a judgment of ______, an associate circuit judge, in an action between ______, plaintiff, and ______, defendant; now, if on such trial de novo judgment be given against the applicant, and he shall satisfy such judgment, or if his application shall be dismissed, and he shall pay the judgment of the associate circuit judge, together with the cost of the appeal, this recognizance shall be void.
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Approved ______, day of ______, 20______
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Associate Circuit Judge