Missouri Laws 529.100 – Time allowed for making return and pleadings
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 529.100
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
- Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
The court issuing any writ of mandamus may allow the person to whom such writ shall be directed, or other person who shall sue out or prosecute the same, such convenient time, respectively, to make return, plead, answer, reply or direct a motion to a pleading, as to the court shall seem just and reasonable.