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MO Rev Stat § 511.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.260 - Imperfections for which judgment will not be reversed or affected.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   511.260. Imperfections for which judgment will not be reversed or affected. — When a verdict shall have been rendered in any cause, the judgment thereon shall not be stayed, nor shall such judgment, nor any judgment after trial or submission, nor any judgment upon confession nihil dicit or upon failure to answer, nor any judgment upon a writ of inquiry of damages executed thereon, be reversed, impaired or in any way affected by reason of the following imperfections, omissions, defects, matters or things, or any of them, namely:  (1) For want of any writ, original or judicial;  (2) For any default or defect of process, or for misconceiving any process, or for awarding the same to the wrong officer, or for the want of any suggestion for awarding process, or for any insufficient suggestion;  (3) For any imperfect or insufficient return of any sheriff or other officer, or that the name of such officer is not signed to any return actually made by him;  (4) For any variance between the original writ and petition;  (5) For any mispleading, miscontinuance or discontinuance, insufficient pleading, jeofail or misjoining issue;  (6) For want of any warrant of attorney of either party, except in cases of judgment by confession, when such warrant is expressly required by law;  (7) For any party under twenty-one years of age having appeared by attorney, if the verdict or judgment be for him;  (8) For the want of any allegation or averment on account of which omission a motion could have been maintained;  (9) For omitting any allegation or averment without proving which the triers of the issue ought not to have given such a verdict;  (10) For any mistake in the name of any party or person, or in any sum of money, or in any description of any property, or in reciting or stating any day, month or year, when the correct name, sum or description shall have been once rightly alleged in any of the pleadings or proceedings;  (11) For a mistake in the name of any juror or officer;  (12) For the want of any venue if the cause was tried in the proper county;  (13) For any informality in entering a judgment or making up the record thereof, or in any continuance or other entry upon the record;  (14) For any other default or negligence of any clerk or officer of the court or of the parties, or of their attorneys, by which neither party shall have been prejudiced. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1265, A. 1949 H.B. 2119)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1099; 1919 § 1550; 1909 § 2119
MO Rev Stat § 511.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.270 - Imperfections cured by amendment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.270. Imperfections cured by amendment. — The omissions, imperfections, defects and variances in section 511.260 enumerated, and all others of a like nature, not being against the right and justice of the matter of the suit, and not altering the issues between the parties on the trial, shall be supplied and amended by the court where the judgment shall be given, or by the court into which such judgment shall be removed by writ of error or by appeal. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1266)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1100; 1919 § 1551; 1909 § 2120
MO Rev Stat § 511.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.280 - Specific performance of judgment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.280. Specific performance of judgment. — In all cases where judgment is given for the conveyance of real estate or the delivery of personal property, the court may, by such judgment, pass the title of such property, without any act to be done on the part of the defendant. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1255)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1089; 1919 § 1540; 1909 § 2109
MO Rev Stat § 511.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.290 - Issuance of writs of possession by court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.290. Issuance of writs of possession by court. — The court may issue a writ of possession, if necessary, to the sheriff of the proper county, to put the party entitled into possession of such real or personal property, or may proceed by attachment or sequestration. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1256)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1090; 1919 § 1541; 1909 § 2110
MO Rev Stat § 511.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.300 - Effect of judgment for conveyance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.300. Effect of judgment for conveyance. — When an unconditional judgment shall be made for a conveyance, release or acquittance, and the party required to execute the same shall not comply therewith, such judgment shall be considered and taken to have the same operation and effect and be as available as if the conveyance, release or acquittance had been executed conformably to the judgment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1257)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1091; 1919 § 1542; 1909 § 2111
MO Rev Stat § 511.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.310 - Damages in lieu of performance of judgment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.310. Damages in lieu of performance of judgment. — When complete justice cannot otherwise be done, the court may, on the petition of the party entitled to the benefit of a final judgment, cause an inquiry to be made by a jury of the amount of damages which ought to be paid in lieu of the performance of the judgment, and may render a judgment for the damages so assessed, and award execution thereon. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1258)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1092; 1919 § 1543; 1909 § 2112
MO Rev Stat § 511.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.320 - Copy of judgment decreeing conveyance recorded — effect of failure to record.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.320. Copy of judgment decreeing conveyance recorded — effect of failure to record. — 1. In all cases where any court of record shall render final judgment, adjudging or decreeing a conveyance of real estate, or that any real estate pass, or shall render any final judgment quieting or determining the title to any real estate, the party in whose favor the judgment or decree is rendered shall cause a copy thereof to be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county wherein the lands passed or to be conveyed or the title to which is quieted or determined lie, within eight months after such judgment or decree is entered.  2. If such judgment or decree be not so recorded, it shall not be valid, except between the parties thereto and such as have actual notice thereof, and in all cases in which any defendant in any such judgment or decree shall have the right, by petition for review, to show good cause for setting aside such judgment or decree, within three years after such judgment or decree is rendered, and a copy of such judgment or decree is not filed for record within eight months as herein provided, such defendant shall be allowed two years and four months from the date of the filing of a copy of such judgment or decree for record in which to file such petition for review; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the provisions of section 511.180. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1298)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1134; 1919 § 1585; 1909 § 2154
MO Rev Stat § 511.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.330 - Exceptions to section 511.320.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.330. Exceptions to section 511.320. — Nothing contained in section 511.320 shall be so construed as to require a party to record a judgment or decree when a conveyance has been executed in pursuance thereof, and acknowledged or proved and deposited for record in the proper office within the time therein limited. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1299)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1135; 1919 § 1586; 1909 § 2155
MO Rev Stat § 511.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.340 - Performance of judgment, enforcement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.340. Performance of judgment, enforcement. — When a judgment requires the performance of any other act than the payment of money, a certified copy of the judgment may be served upon the party against whom it is given, and his obedience thereto required. If he neglect or refuse, he may be punished by the court as for a contempt, by fine or imprisonment, or both, and, if necessary, by sequestration of property. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1268)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1102; 1919 § 1553; 1909 § 2122  (1976) Where circuit court reversed and held for naught the impeachment proceedings of city removing the city marshal, the city could not be held in contempt for failure to take affirmative action such as paying the marshal's salary and emoluments due during the period of suspension where these acts were not required specifically in the original judgment. State ex rel. City of Pacific v. Buford (A.), 534 S.W.2d 819.
MO Rev Stat § 511.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.350 - Liens on real estate established by judgment or decrees in courts of record, exception — associate circuit court, procedure required — no administrative amendments.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   511.350. Liens on real estate established by judgment or decrees in courts of record, exception — associate circuit court, procedure required — no administrative amendments. — 1. Judgments and decrees entered by the supreme court, by any United States district or circuit court held within this state, by any district of the court of appeals, by any circuit court and any probate division of the circuit court, except judgments and decrees rendered by associate, small claims and municipal divisions of the circuit courts, shall be liens on the real estate of the person against whom they are entered, situate in the county for which or in which the court is held.  2. Judgments and decrees rendered by the associate divisions of the circuit courts shall not be liens on the real estate of the person against whom they are rendered until such judgments or decrees are filed with the clerk of the circuit court pursuant to sections 517.141 and 517.151.  3. Judgments and decrees entered by the small claims and municipal divisions of the circuit court shall not constitute liens against the real estate of the person against whom they are rendered.  4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no judgments or decrees entered by any court of competent jurisdiction may be amended or modified by any administrative agency without the approval of a court of competent jurisdiction.  5. Notwithstanding subsection 4 of this section or any other law to the contrary, no judgments or decrees entered by any court of competent jurisdiction relating to child support orders may be amended or modified by any administrative agency without the approval of a court of competent jurisdiction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1269, A. 1949 H.B. 2119, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1982 S.B. 484, A.L. 2001 S.B. 10, A.L. 2003 H.B. 613, A.L. 2007 S.B. 25)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1103; 1919 § 1554; 1909 § 2123
MO Rev Stat § 511.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.360 - Commencement, extent and duration of lien — applicability of duration of lien.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   511.360. Commencement, extent and duration of lien — applicability of duration of lien. — The lien of a judgment or decree shall extend as well to the real estate acquired after the rendition thereof, as to that which was owned when the judgment or decree was rendered. Such liens shall commence on the day of the rendition of the judgment, and shall continue for ten years, subject to be revived as herein provided; but when two or more judgments or decrees are rendered at the same term, as between the parties entitled to such judgments or decrees, the lien shall commence on the last day of the term at which they are rendered. The provisions of this section relating to the duration of the lien on real estate shall apply only to judgments or decrees rendered or revived after August 28, 1998, and, for all judgments or decrees entered prior to such date, the lien of such judgment or decree shall continue for three years from the date such lien commenced. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1270, A.L. 2001 S.B. 10, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1768)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1105; 1919 § 1556; 1909 § 2125
MO Rev Stat § 511.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.370 - Scire facias to revive, may issue, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.370. Scire facias to revive, may issue, when. — The plaintiff or his legal representative may, at any time within ten years, sue out a scire facias to revive a judgment and lien; but after the expiration of ten years from the rendition of the judgment, no scire facias shall issue. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1271)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1106; 1919 § 1557; 1909 § 2126
MO Rev Stat § 511.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.380 - Revival to take effect from rendition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.380. Revival to take effect from rendition. — If a scire facias be issued after the expiration of the lien, and a judgment of revival is afterward rendered, such revival shall only take effect from the rendition thereof, and shall not prevail over intermediate encumbrances. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1272)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1107; 1919 § 1558; 1909 § 2127
MO Rev Stat § 511.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.390 - Scire facias before lien expires, effect of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.390. Scire facias before lien expires, effect of. — If a scire facias is issued to revive a judgment and lien before the expiration of the lien, and a judgment of revival is afterward rendered, although it may be after the expiration of the lien, yet the said lien shall prevail over all intermediate encumbrances. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1273)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1108; 1919 § 1559; 1909 § 2128
MO Rev Stat § 511.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.400 - Scire facias, how served and when triable.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.400. Scire facias, how served and when triable. — The scire facias shall be served on the defendant or his legal representatives, terre tenants or other persons occupying the land, and be directed to and executed in any county in this state. All such cases shall be tried at the return term, except they are continued for cause. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1274)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1109; 1919 § 1560; 1909 § 2129
MO Rev Stat § 511.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.410 - Publication ordered, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.410. Publication ordered, when. — If the defendant cannot be found, the court may make an order setting forth briefly the nature of the case, and requiring all persons interested to show cause, at the next term of such court, why such judgment or decree should not be revived and the lien continued. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1275)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1110; 1919 § 1561; 1909 § 2130
MO Rev Stat § 511.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.420 - Publication of order.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.420. Publication of order. — The order shall be published in some newspaper printed in this state for three weeks, the last insertion to be two weeks before the commencement of the term at which the parties are required to appear. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1276)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1111; 1919 § 1562; 1909 § 2131
MO Rev Stat § 511.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.430 - Judgment of revival, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.430. Judgment of revival, when. — If upon the service of the scire facias or publication as aforesaid, the defendant, or any of his creditors, do not appear and show cause against reviving the judgment or decree, the same shall be revived, and the lien continued for another period of three years; and so on, from time to time, as often as may be necessary. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1277)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1112; 1919 § 1563; 1909 § 2132
MO Rev Stat § 511.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.440 - Transcript of judgment a lien in another county, when — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   511.440. Transcript of judgment a lien in another county, when — procedure. — 1. Judgments and decrees obtained in the supreme court or any district of the court of appeals or any United States court or any court of record in this state shall, upon the filing of a transcript thereof in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of any other county and indexing of such transcript as provided in subsection 2 of this section, be a lien upon the real estate of the person against whom such judgment or decree is rendered, situate in the county in which such transcript is filed.  2. Such judgment or decree as provided in subsection 1 of this section shall be entered in the record kept by the clerk of the circuit court having jurisdiction of civil causes within a county or a city not within a county, for judgments and decrees of the circuit court of such county as provided in section 511.500, except that the record of entry of such judgment or decree shall also include the name and location of the court that rendered such judgment or decree. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1306, A. 1949 H.B. 2119, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1994 S.B. 424, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1142; 1919 § 1593; 1909 § 2162
MO Rev Stat § 511.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.450 - Judgment docketed and recorded, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   511.450. Judgment docketed and recorded, when. — As soon as such transcript shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of any county, the clerk thereof shall forthwith enter the judgment or decree in the judgment docket of said court, in the same manner as is provided for entering judgments rendered in such court; and the clerk shall also record such transcript in a record to be kept for that purpose, and shall record, both in the judgment docket and upon the record of such transcript, the time of filing the same in his office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1307, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1143; 1919 § 1594; 1909 § 2163
MO Rev Stat § 511.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.470 - Such liens to have the force of other judgment liens.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.470. Such liens to have the force of other judgment liens. — The lien created by sections 511.440 to 511.480 shall exist to the same extent and for the same time only as the lien of the judgment or decree in the county where the same was rendered; and a transcript of a judgment or decree reviving a judgment or decree, or the lien thereof, may be filed, docketed and recorded in the same manner and with like effect as an original judgment or decree. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1309)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1145; 1919 § 1596; 1909 § 2165
MO Rev Stat § 511.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.480 - Execution and revival sued out where judgment was rendered — except magistrate judgments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   511.480. Execution and revival sued out where judgment was rendered — except magistrate judgments. — 1. Sections 511.460 to 511.480 shall be deemed to authorize the court where such transcript shall be filed to issue executions on such judgment or decree and to exercise all powers incident to the judgment including judgment debtor proceedings, and a scire facias to revive such judgment or decree or lien.  2. Transcripts of judgments described in section 511.440 shall not authorize the courts where such transcripts shall be filed to issue executions thereon or to issue a scire facias to revive such judgments, but they shall issue and be sued out of the court where the original judgment or decree was rendered. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1310, A.L. 1965 p. 659)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1146; 1919 § 1597; 1909 § 2166
MO Rev Stat § 511.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.490 - Clerk — failure to perform duty — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   511.490. Clerk — failure to perform duty — penalty. — Any clerk of a court who shall refuse or neglect, after tender of his fees for the same, to file and record such transcript and docket such judgment or decree, as in sections 511.440 to 511.480 directed, shall be liable on his official bond to any person damaged by reason of such refusal or neglect, in double the amount of damages sustained. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1311)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1147; 1919 § 1598; 1909 § 2167
MO Rev Stat § 511.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 511 - Judgments|Section 511.500 - Abstract of judgment filed with circuit clerk to establish lien on real property — priority of liens (counties and City of St. Louis).

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   511.500. Abstract of judgment filed with circuit clerk to establish lien on real property — priority of liens (counties and City of St. Louis). — No judgment hereafter rendered by any court shall be a lien on real estate situate in such counties or city not within a county, until an abstract of the judgment shall be entered in a record prepared and maintained in the manner prescribed by supreme court rule which shall be available for public inspection in the office of the circuit clerk, and which shall state: the names of the parties; the date of the judgment; the nature of the judgment or decree; the amount of the debt, damages and costs; and the satisfaction or other disposition thereof, with any necessary notes thereon. The liens of all judgments entered in such record, as provided in this section, shall have priority according to the sequence of and from the time of its respective entry into the record, such time being deemed within the period of time in which the abstract thereof should be furnished to or provided by the circuit clerk pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1314, A.L. 1982 S.B. 484, A.L. 1992 H.B. 982 merged with S.B. 833, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1150; 1919 § 1601; 1909 § 2170