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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 531.040

  • 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

Such person, against whom an information in the nature of a quo warranto shall be prosecuted, shall appear and answer at the same term in which the same information shall be filed, unless the court shall give further time; and such person prosecuting such information shall proceed thereupon with the most convenient speed.