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MO Rev Stat § 425.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 425 - Debt Adjusters and Collection Agencies|Section 425.300 - Real party in interest on assignment of claim for billing, collection, bringing suit, attorney required to appear in court — court may sever actions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1992   425.300. Real party in interest on assignment of claim for billing, collection, bringing suit, attorney required to appear in court — court may sever actions. — Collection agencies may take assignment of claims in their own name as real parties in interest for the purpose of billing and collection and bringing suit in their own and the claimant's names thereon, provided that no suit authorized by this section may be instituted on behalf of a collection agency in any court unless the collection agency appears by a duly authorized and licensed attorney at law. Upon good cause being shown, a court may sever any actions brought under this section. ­­-------- (L. 1992 S.B. 688 § 5)
MO Rev Stat § 426.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.010 - Voluntary assignment — execution of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.010. Voluntary assignment — execution of. — Every voluntary assignment of lands, tenements, goods, chattels, effects and credits made by a debtor to any person in trust for his creditors, shall be for the benefit of all the creditors of the assignor in proportion to their respective claims; and every provision in any assignment providing for the payment of one debt or liability in preference to another shall be void, and all debts and liabilities (including judgments entered by confession thirty days previous to such assignment) shall be paid pro rata from the assets thereof; and every such assignment shall be proved or acknowledged, and certified and recorded in the same manner as is prescribed by law in cases wherein real estate is conveyed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5739)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5629; 1919 § 623; 1909 § 896  (1960) The payment of the fee of an attorney employed by the assignor and subsequently by the assignee for the benefit of creditors held not violative of the anti reference statute of Missouri. Abrams v. United States, 274 F.2d 8.
MO Rev Stat § 426.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.020 - Assignee to file inventory, when and where.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.020. Assignee to file inventory, when and where. — It shall be the duty of the assignee, within fifteen days after the execution of the deed of assignment, to file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the assignor, or, if there be more than one, in which any one of them shall reside, unless longer time be allowed by the court for good cause shown, an inventory of the property, effects and things assigned. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5740, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5630; 1919 § 624; 1909 § 897  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.030 - Inventory to be sworn to.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.030. Inventory to be sworn to. — The inventory shall be accompanied with an affidavit by the assignee, that the same is a full and complete inventory of all such property, effects and things, as far as the same have come to his knowledge. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5741)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5631; 1919 § 625; 1909 § 898
MO Rev Stat § 426.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.040 - Appraisers, appointment of.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.040. Appraisers, appointment of. — It shall be the duty of the circuit court in whose clerk's office such inventory may be filed to appoint two or more disinterested and competent persons to appraise the property, effects and things so inventoried; provided, that such appraisers may be appointed before the filing of the inventory and may accompany the assignee and make said appraisement at the time of the making of said inventory, and said inventory and appraisement may be made out upon one paper with the affidavits of the assignee and appraisers thereto attached. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5742, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5632; 1919 § 626; 1909 § 899  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.050 - Oath, filing and compensation of appraisers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.050. Oath, filing and compensation of appraisers. — The appraisers, or a majority of them, having first taken an oath or affirmation, before some person having authority to administer oaths, to discharge their duties with fidelity, shall forthwith proceed to make such appraisement. The appraisers shall file the appraisement and their oath of office, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, within five days after they shall have completed the same. The appraisers shall each receive three dollars per day for their attendance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5743)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5633; 1919 §§ 627, 628, 629; 1909 §§ 900, 901, 902
MO Rev Stat § 426.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.060 - Additional property, duty of assignee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.060. Additional property, duty of assignee. — If, after making the first inventory, any other property, effects and things conveyed by the deed of assignment shall come to the possession or knowledge of the assignee, his duty in relation thereto, and the duty of the court or judge, and the appraisers, shall be the same as is required of them by this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5744)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5634; 1919 § 630; 1909 § 903
MO Rev Stat § 426.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.070 - Assignor's list of property — filing of bond of assignee — additional bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.070. Assignor's list of property — filing of bond of assignee — additional bond. — The assignor, his agent or attorney, at the time of the execution of the deed of assignment, shall make a statement, in writing, verified by affidavit, setting forth the general nature and full value of the estate and effects assigned, which statement shall be filed with the deed of assignment for record; and the assignee shall, within three days after the filing of such deed and statement, give bond with at least two good and sufficient securities, to be approved by the court or judge, or clerk thereof in vacation, in double the amount of the estate and effects assigned, and if the appraised value of such estate and effects, when appraised, shall be greater than the value given in such statement, or if the securities in such bond should in any way become impaired or insufficient, the assignee shall, at the time of filing the appraisement, give another bond with at least two good and sufficient securities, to be approved by the court or judge, or the clerk thereof in vacation, in double the amount of the appraised value of the estate and effects assigned. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5745)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5635; 1919 § 631; 1909 § 904
MO Rev Stat § 426.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.080 - Bond, condition of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.080. Bond, condition of. — The bond shall be taken in the name of the state of Missouri, and the condition shall be as follows: The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bound ______, assignee of ______, shall, in all things, discharge his duty as assignee of ______, aforesaid, and faithfully execute the trust confided to him, then the above obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5746)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5636; 1919 § 632; 1909 § 905
MO Rev Stat § 426.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.090 - Bond, where filed and recorded — approval.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.090. Bond, where filed and recorded — approval. — The bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court in which the inventory is filed, shall be approved by the court, or in the absence of the judge, by the clerk and shall be by the clerk recorded in a book for such purpose, to be kept in his office and labeled "assignments". ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5747, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5637; 1919 § 633; 1909 § 906  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.100 - Bonds taken in absence of judge, approval or rejection.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.100. Bonds taken in absence of judge, approval or rejection. — The circuit court shall approve or reject the bonds taken in the absence of the judge, and the clerk shall enter the approval or rejection on the record. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5748, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5638; 1919 § 634; 1909 § 907  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.110 - If rejected, court to order new bond — failure to give revokes authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.110. If rejected, court to order new bond — failure to give revokes authority. — If the bond be rejected, the court shall order the assignee to give another bond, with sufficient security, to be approved by the court; and if he fail to give such bond within such time as the court shall direct, not exceeding thirty days, his authority further to act as assignee shall be deemed to be revoked. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5749)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5639; 1919 § 635; 1909 § 908
MO Rev Stat § 426.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.120 - Rejected bond valid until new one given — new bond relates back.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.120. Rejected bond valid until new one given — new bond relates back. — Such bond shall be valid until such new bond be given and approved, notwithstanding its rejection by the court, and such new bond, when approved, shall relate back, and be operative from the date of assignment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5750)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5640; 1919 § 636; 1909 § 909
MO Rev Stat § 426.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.130 - Suit on bond, by whom and when brought — damages.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.130. Suit on bond, by whom and when brought — damages. — Any person injured by a breach of the condition of the bond may sue thereon in the name of the state to his use, and the damages shall be assessed as on bonds with collateral conditions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5751)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5641; 1919 § 637; 1909 § 910
MO Rev Stat § 426.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.140 - Assignee to exhibit accounts, when and how — failure — citation — dismissal.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.140. Assignee to exhibit accounts, when and how — failure — citation — dismissal. — Every assignee shall exhibit, on oath, a statement of the accounts of the trust, with proper vouchers, to the circuit court within sixty days after the execution of the assignment, unless for good cause postponed, and shall file a like statement every ninety days thereafter until such assigned estate is fully settled; and if such assignee shall fail to make such settlement within such times, then on the application of any person interested, the court shall order a citation to issue to such assignee, requiring him to appear in court within a time to be therein named, and exhibit, on oath, a statement of his said accounts; and if said assignee shall neglect and fail to exhibit such accounts within the time named in said citation, the said court shall, on motion, unless for good cause shown, dismiss said assignee from his trust. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5752, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5642; 1919 § 638; 1909 § 911  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.150 - Notice of allowance of assignee's accounts by court, how given.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.150. Notice of allowance of assignee's accounts by court, how given. — The court shall, by such order as the circumstances of the case may require, direct the clerk to give notice of the exhibition and filing of such accounts, for such time and in such public newspapers as it shall appoint, and that such accounts will be allowed by the court at a certain time to be stated in such notice, unless good cause to the contrary be shown. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5753)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5643; 1919 § 639; 1909 § 912
MO Rev Stat § 426.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.160 - Expense of advertising.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.160. Expense of advertising. — The expense of advertising shall be paid by the assignee, at the time of exhibiting his account, and shall be passed to his credit in such account. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5754)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5644; 1919 § 640; 1909 § 913
MO Rev Stat § 426.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.170 - Demands against estates, how and when allowed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.170. Demands against estates, how and when allowed. — The assignee shall appoint a day, within three months after the date of the assignment, and a place, which shall be the county seat of the county where the inventory is filed, or such other place in said county most convenient to all the parties in interest, where any court of record may be lawfully held, when and where he will proceed publicly to adjust and allow demands against the estate and effects of the assignor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5755)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5645; 1919 § 641; 1909 § 914
MO Rev Stat § 426.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.180 - Notice, how given — creditor failing to present at proper time, precluded — exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.180. Notice, how given — creditor failing to present at proper time, precluded — exceptions. — The assignee shall give notice of the time and place of adjusting and allowing demands against the estate of his assignor, by advertisement published in some newspaper printed in the county, or, if there be none, in the one nearest the place where the inventory is filed, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least one week before the appointed day; and also, whenever the residence of any of the creditors is known to him, by letter addressed to such creditors at their known or usual places of abode, at least four weeks before the appointed day. The assignee shall attend at the place designated in said notice in person, on said day, and shall remain in attendance at said place on said day, and during two consecutive days thereafter, and shall commence the adjustment and allowance of demands against the trust fund at nine o'clock a.m., and continue the same until five o'clock p.m., of each of said three days; and all creditors who, after being notified as aforesaid, shall not attend at the place designated during the said term, and lay before the assignee the nature and amount of their demands, shall be precluded from any benefit of said estate; but the hearing on any demand presented at the time may be continued, for good cause shown, to such time as is deemed right; provided, that any creditor who shall fail to lay his claim before said assignee during said term, on account of sickness, absence from the state, or any other good cause, may, at any time before the declaration of the final dividend, file and prove up his claim, and the same may be allowed, and the remaining dividends paid thereon, as in the case of other allowed claims. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5756)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5646; 1919 § 642; 1909 § 915
MO Rev Stat § 426.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.190 - Assignee may administer oaths and examine witnesses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.190. Assignee may administer oaths and examine witnesses. — The assignee shall have power to administer all necessary oaths to debtors, creditors and witnesses; and may examine them on oath, touching any claim exhibited to him for allowance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5757)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5647; 1919 § 643; 1909 § 916
MO Rev Stat § 426.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.200 - Evidence to establish demand.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.200. Evidence to establish demand. — The assignee shall require such evidence, and no other, of the justice of such demands, as is required to establish demands of a similar character in the circuit court in suits between the original parties to the contract. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5758)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5648; 1919 § 644; 1909 § 917
MO Rev Stat § 426.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.210 - Decisions of assignee final, unless appeal asked for — appeal to circuit court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.210. Decisions of assignee final, unless appeal asked for — appeal to circuit court. — The decision of the assignee in relation to all claims presented to him for allowance shall be final, unless a creditor or some other person interested shall, after a decision is made on any such claim, ask an appeal therefrom; and all appeals so asked shall be allowed by such assignee to the circuit court having jurisdiction of the matter of the assignment, and all appeals heretofore taken shall be transferred to and perfected in such circuit court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5759)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5649; 1919 § 645; 1909 § 918
MO Rev Stat § 426.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.220 - Appeals, how taken — affidavit and bond for.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.220. Appeals, how taken — affidavit and bond for. — All appeals allowed by virtue of section 426.210 shall be taken and made by the appellant, or someone for him, making and filing an affidavit that the appeal is not taken for vexation or delay, but because affiant believes that appellant is prejudiced by the decision appealed from, and by giving bond to the state of Missouri in such sum as the assignee may require, and with such sureties as he may approve, conditioned that appellant will prosecute his appeal with due diligence, and pay all cost thereon awarded against appellant. If judgment for costs be rendered against appellant, it shall be against him and his sureties on the bond. In all other respects appeals shall be taken, certified and proceeded with in the same manner as applications for a trial de novo from judgments of associate circuit judges. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5760, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5650; 1919 § 646; 1909 § 919  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.230 - Proceedings in circuit court upon appeal.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.230. Proceedings in circuit court upon appeal. — Upon such appeal being allowed and certified, as in section 426.220 is required, the court shall become possessed of the case, and shall proceed to hear and determine the same, in the same manner as if such case was pending before a circuit judge on an application for trial de novo from the judgment of an associate circuit judge; and appeals may be taken from the judgment of the court, in the same manner as appeals are now allowed by law from judgments of circuit judges in this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5761, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5651; 1919 § 647; 1909 § 920  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.240 - Judgment certified to assignee and claim allowed, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.240. Judgment certified to assignee and claim allowed, when. — All judgments rendered in favor of any claimant in the circuit court by virtue of the provisions of this chapter, shall be certified by the clerk thereof to the assignee, who shall allow the same, and class it as if such judgment had been rendered by him on the original hearing thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5762)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5652; 1919 § 648; 1909 § 921
MO Rev Stat § 426.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.250 - Demand of assignee against assignor, how allowed.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   426.250. Demand of assignee against assignor, how allowed. — If the assignee shall have a demand against the assignor, which he desires to have allowed, he may present a petition to the circuit court stating the particulars of his demand and the amount thereof, verified by affidavit, and thereupon such court shall appoint some suitable person to act temporarily as assignee of such estate, for the purpose of hearing and passing upon such demand. The assignee so appointed shall take an oath that he will faithfully discharge the trust confided to him, and shall proceed to examine the claim, and if the same shall be found to be correct, in whole or in part, he shall allow the amount found to be due, and report his action in premises to the proper court, at a date to be fixed by the judge; and the court shall make an order directing the sum allowed to be paid to the claimant as other allowances are paid, and appeals shall be allowed from the decision of such temporary assignee as in other cases provided for in this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5763; A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5653; 1919 § 649; 1909 § 922  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 426.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXVII - Debtor-Creditor Relations|Chapter 426 - Assignment for Benefit of Creditors|Section 426.260 - Assignee failing to file true inventory and give bond, court to issue citation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   426.260. Assignee failing to file true inventory and give bond, court to issue citation. — Whenever it shall be made to appear to the court having jurisdiction that any assignee has neglected or refused, when required by law, to file a full and true inventory, or to give bond, as required by this chapter, the court shall issue a citation to such assignee to appear in court at the time therein specified, to show cause why he should not be dismissed from his trust. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5764)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5654; 1919 § 650; 1909 § 923