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MO Rev Stat § 509.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.380 - Place of hearing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.380. Place of hearing. — All motions may be heard and other acts or proceedings, except trials upon the merits, may be done or conducted by a judge in chambers, without the attendance of the clerk or other court officials and at any place either within or without the county; but no hearing, other than one ex parte, shall be conducted outside the county without the consent of all parties affected thereby. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 70)
MO Rev Stat § 509.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.390 - Regular times and places for hearing motions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.390. Regular times and places for hearing motions. — 1. Unless local conditions make it impracticable, each trial court shall establish regular times and places, at intervals sufficiently frequent for the prompt dispatch of business, at which motions requiring notice and hearing may be heard and disposed of; but the court at any time or place and on such notice, if any, as he considers reasonable may make orders for the advancement, conduct, and hearing of actions.  2. To expedite its business, the court may make provision by rule or order for the submission and determination of motions without oral hearing upon brief written statements of reasons in support and opposition. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 71)
MO Rev Stat § 509.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.400 - Defenses which may be raised by pleading — waiver.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.400. Defenses which may be raised by pleading — waiver. — All defenses and objections for which there is no provision for the raising of the same by motion shall be raised in the responsive pleading if one is permitted. When no responsive pleading is required the case shall be deemed at issue. If a responsive pleading is required all defenses or objections not raised therein are waived, except failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, or failure to state a legal defense to a claim, and, except lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter. All issues of fact raised or deemed to be raised shall be determined at the trial. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 72)
MO Rev Stat § 509.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.410 - Objection that no demand has been made not available, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   509.410. Objection that no demand has been made not available, when. — It shall not hereafter be available to a party as an objection that no demand for the subject matter of a suit was made prior to its institution, unless it is expressly set up by way of defense in the answer or replication, and is also accompanied with a tender of the amount that is due; in which case, if the plaintiff will further prosecute his suit, and shall not recover a greater sum than is tendered, he shall pay all costs. This provision shall be applicable as well to actions for property as for money; when property is tendered the damages for its detention, if any, shall also be tendered. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1426)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1262; 1919 § 1714; 1909 § 2283
MO Rev Stat § 509.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.420 - What a pleading shall state as a counterclaim.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.420. What a pleading shall state as a counterclaim. — A pleading shall state as a counterclaim any claim, not the subject of a pending action, which at the time of filing the pleading the pleader has against any opposing party, if it arises out of the transaction or occurrences that is the subject matter of the opposing party's claim and does not require for its adjudication the presence of third parties of whom the court cannot acquire jurisdiction. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 73)
MO Rev Stat § 509.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.430 - Counterclaim exceeding opposing claim.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.430. Counterclaim exceeding opposing claim. — A counterclaim may or may not diminish or defeat the recovery sought by the opposing party. It may claim relief exceeding in amount or different in kind from that sought in the pleading of the opposing party. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 74)
MO Rev Stat § 509.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.440 - When claim may be presented as counterclaim by supplemental pleading.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.440. When claim may be presented as counterclaim by supplemental pleading. — A claim which either matured or was acquired by the pleader after serving his pleading may, with the permission of the court, be presented as a counterclaim by supplemental pleading. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 75)
MO Rev Stat § 509.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.450 - Counterclaim set up by amendment, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.450. Counterclaim set up by amendment, when. — When a pleader fails to set up a counterclaim through oversight, inadvertence, or excusable neglect, or when justice requires he may by leave of court set up the counterclaim by amendment. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 76)
MO Rev Stat § 509.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.460 - Cross-claims against coparty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.460. Cross-claims against coparty. — A pleading may state as a cross-claim any claim by one party against a coparty arising out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter either of the original action or of a counterclaim therein. Such cross-claim may include a claim that the party against whom it is asserted is or may be liable to the cross-claimant for all or part of a claim asserted in the action against the cross-claimant. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 77)
MO Rev Stat § 509.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.470 - Additional parties made defendants when required for counterclaim or cross-claim.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.470. Additional parties made defendants when required for counterclaim or cross-claim. — When the presence of parties other than those to the original action is required for the granting of complete relief in the determination of a counterclaim or cross-claim, the court shall order them to be brought in as defendants as provided in this code if jurisdiction of them can be obtained. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 78)
MO Rev Stat § 509.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.480 - Reduction of assigned claims to the extent of all counterclaims.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.480. Reduction of assigned claims to the extent of all counterclaims. — Except as otherwise provided by law as to negotiable instruments, every assigned claim shall be subject to be reduced to the extent of all counterclaims which the obligor had against the plaintiff's assignor at the time of notice of the assignment. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 80)
MO Rev Stat § 509.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.490 - Amendment of pleadings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.490. Amendment of pleadings. — A party may amend his pleading as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is filed and served, or, if the pleading is one to which no responsive pleading is required and the action has not been placed upon the trial calendar, he may so amend it at any time within thirty days after it is filed. Otherwise a party may amend his pleading only by leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party; and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires. A party shall plead in response to an amended pleading within the time remaining for response to the original pleading or within ten days after service of the amended pleading, whichever period may be the longer, unless the court otherwise orders. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 81)
MO Rev Stat § 509.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.500 - Amendments to conform to evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.500. Amendments to conform to evidence. — When issues not raised by the pleadings are tried by express or implied consent of the parties, they shall be treated in all respects as if they had been raised in the pleadings. Such amendment of the pleadings as may be necessary to cause them to conform to the evidence and to raise these issues may be made upon motion of any party at any time, even after judgment; but failure so to amend does not affect the result of the trial of these issues. If evidence is objected to at the trial on the ground that it is not within the issues made by the pleadings, the court may allow the pleadings to be amended and shall do so freely when the presentation of the merits of the action will be subserved thereby and the objecting party fails to satisfy the court that the admission of such evidence would prejudice him in maintaining his action or defense upon the merits. The court may grant a continuance to enable the objecting party to meet such evidence. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 82)
MO Rev Stat § 509.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 509 - Pleadings|Section 509.510 - Supplemental pleadings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   509.510. Supplemental pleadings. — Upon motion of a party the court may, upon reasonable notice and upon such terms as are just, permit him to serve a supplemental pleading setting forth transactions or occurrences or events which have happened since the date of the pleading sought to be supplemented. If the court deems it advisable that the adverse party plead thereto, it shall so order, specifying the time therefor. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 83)
MO Rev Stat § 510.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.010 - Court may direct attorneys to appear before it for conference.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.010. Court may direct attorneys to appear before it for conference. — 1. The court may in its discretion direct the attorneys for the parties to appear before it for a conference in the county where the case is pending to consider  (1) The simplification of the issues;  (2) The necessity or desirability of amendments to the pleadings;  (3) The possibility of obtaining admissions of fact and of documents which will avoid unnecessary proof;  (4) The limitation of the number of expert witnesses;  (5) Such other matters as may aid in the disposition of the action.  2. The court shall make an order which recites the action taken at the conference, the amendments allowed to the pleadings, and the agreements made by the parties as to any of the matters considered, and which limits the issues for trial to those not disposed of by admissions or agreements of counsel; and such order when entered controls the subsequent course of the action, unless modified at the trial to prevent manifest injustice. The court in its discretion may establish by rule a pretrial calendar on which actions may be placed for consideration as above provided and may either confine the calendar to jury actions or to nonjury actions or extend it to all actions. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 84)
MO Rev Stat § 510.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.020 - Interrogatories to parties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.020. Interrogatories to parties. — 1. Any party may serve upon any adverse party written interrogatories to be answered by the party served or, if the party served is a public or private corporation or a partnership or association, by any officer, director, partner or managing agent thereof competent to testify in its behalf.  2. The interrogatories shall be answered separately and fully in writing under oath. The answers shall be signed by the person making them; and the party upon whom the interrogatories have been served shall serve a copy of the answers on the party submitting the interrogatories within fifteen days after the delivery of the interrogatories, unless the court, on motion and notice and for good cause shown, enlarges or shortens the time.  3. Objections to any interrogatories may be presented to the court within ten days after service thereof, with notice as in case of a motion; and answers shall be deferred until the objections are determined, which shall be at as early a time as is practicable.  4. No party may, without leave of court, serve more than one set of interrogatories to be answered by the same party. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 85)
MO Rev Stat § 510.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.030 - Production of documents, papers, tangibles — statements previously made, definition, obtained, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   510.030. Production of documents, papers, tangibles — statements previously made, definition, obtained, how. — 1. Upon motion of any party showing good cause therefor and upon notice to all other parties, the court in which an action is pending may:  (1) Order any party to produce and permit the inspection and copying or photographing, by or on behalf of the moving party, of* any designated documents, papers, books, accounts, letters, photographs, objects, or tangible things, not privileged, which constitute or contain evidence material to any matter involved in the action and which are in his possession, custody, or control; or  (2) Order any party to permit entry upon designated land or other property in his possession or control for the purpose of inspecting, measuring, surveying, sampling, or photographing the property or any designated relevant object or operation thereon. The order shall specify the time, place, and manner of making the inspection and taking the copies and photographs and may prescribe such terms and conditions as are just.  2. A party may obtain without the required showing a statement concerning the action or its subject matter previously made by that party. For purposes of this subsection, a statement previously made is a written statement signed or otherwise adopted or approved by the person making it, or a stenographic, mechanical, electrical, audio, video, motion picture or other recording, or a transcription thereof, of the party or of a statement made by the party and contemporaneously recorded. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 86, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)  *Word "or" appears in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 510.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.040 - Court may order physical and mental examinations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.040. Court may order physical and mental examinations. — In an action in which the mental or physical condition of a party is in controversy, the court in which the action is pending may order him to submit to a physical or mental examination by a physician, chosen by the party requesting the examination. The order may be made only on motion for good cause shown and upon notice to the party to be examined and to all other parties not in default and shall specify the time, place, manner, conditions, and scope of the examination and the person or persons by whom it is to be made. Such physician shall be deemed the witness of the party procuring the examination unless called as a witness in court by the opposing party. Upon his request and without cost to himself the party examined shall be furnished by such order with a full written report of the examination. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 87)
MO Rev Stat § 510.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.050 - Request for admission of genuineness of relevant documents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.050. Request for admission of genuineness of relevant documents. — 1. At any time after the pleadings are closed, a party may serve upon any other party a written request for the admission by the latter of the genuineness of any relevant documents described in and exhibited with the request or of the truth of any relevant matters of fact pertaining to such documents set forth in the written request. Copies of the documents shall be delivered with the request unless copies have already been furnished. Each of the matters of which an admission is requested shall be deemed admitted unless, within a period designated in the request, not less than ten days after service thereof or within such further time as the court may allow on motion and notice, the party to whom the request is directed serves upon the party requesting the admission a sworn statement either denying specifically the matters of which an admission is requested or setting forth in detail the reasons why he cannot truthfully either admit or deny those matters.  2. Any admission made by a party pursuant to such request is for the purpose of the pending action only and neither constitutes an admission by him for any other purpose nor may it be used against him in any other proceeding. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 88)
MO Rev Stat § 510.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.070 - Cases shall be placed on docket, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.070. Cases shall be placed on docket, when. — As soon as possible after issue is joined in a case pending in circuit court or after ten days from the date a case reaches the trial court upon appeal, by change of venue or otherwise upon issue already joined, the clerk shall place the same upon the trial docket. Cases shall be set for trial in accordance with the rules and practice of the trial court except as such appeals may be otherwise especially provided for by law. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 91)
MO Rev Stat § 510.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.080 - Court may continue an action to a fixed day.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.080. Court may continue an action to a fixed day. — For good cause shown, the court may continue an action to a fixed day, or to a date for trial to be set thereafter. Every continuance granted on the application of a party may be at the cost of such party, if so ordered by the court. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 92)
MO Rev Stat § 510.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.090 - Application for continuance, how made.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.090. Application for continuance, how made. — Every application for a continuance shall, unless the adverse party consent that it be made orally in open court, be made by motion in writing, accompanied by the affidavit of the applicant, or of some other credible person, setting forth the facts on which the application is founded. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1087, A.L. 1943 p. 353 § 93)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 936; 1919 § 1386; 1909 § 1956
MO Rev Stat § 510.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.100 - Applications for a continuance on account of absence of witnesses shall show what.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.100. Applications for a continuance on account of absence of witnesses shall show what. — Applications for a continuance on account of the absence of witnesses or their evidence shall show  (1) The facts showing the materiality of the evidence sought to be obtained and due diligence upon the part of the applicant to obtain such witness or testimony;  (2) The name and residence of such witness, if known, or, if not known, the use of diligence to obtain the same, and also facts showing reasonable grounds of belief that the attendance or testimony of such witness will be procured at the date to which the action may be continued or set for trial;  (3) What particular facts the affiant believes the witness will prove, and that he knows of no other person whose evidence or attendance he could have procured at the trial, by whom he can prove or so fully prove the same facts;  (4) That such witness is not absent by the connivance, consent, or procurement of the applicant, and such application is not made for vexation or delay, but in good faith for the purpose of obtaining a fair and impartial trial. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1090, A.L. 1943 p. 353 § 94)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 939; 1919 § 1389; 1909 § 1959
MO Rev Stat § 510.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations|Chapter 510 - Trials and Proceedings Before and After Trial|Section 510.110 - Amendment of affidavit — overruled, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   510.110. Amendment of affidavit — overruled, when. — If the court shall be of the opinion that the affidavit is insufficient, it shall permit the same to be amended; and if after such amendment the affidavit does not contain a sufficient statement of facts as herein required, the court shall overrule the same; but if, upon the contrary, the court shall find the affidavit sufficient, the cause shall be continued, unless the opposite party will admit that the witness, if present, would swear to the facts set out in said affidavit, in which event the cause shall not be continued, but the party moving therefor shall read as the evidence of such witness the facts so stated in such affidavit and the opposing party may disprove the facts disclosed, or prove any contradictory statements made by such absent witness in relation to the matter in issue and on trial. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1091, A.L. 1943 p. 353 § 95)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 940; 1919 § 1390; 1909 § 1960