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MO Rev Stat § 526.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.140 - Proceedings where notice not required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.140. Proceedings where notice not required. — When an application shall be made for an injunction, as herein provided, and no notice of such application is required by this chapter, and no notice is in fact given, and the court, judges or judge to which the application is made shall deem it proper that the defendant, or any of several defendants, should be heard before granting the injunction, such court, judges or judge may, by an order, require cause to be shown, at a specified time and place, why the injunction should not be granted, and he or they may, in the meantime, restrain the defendant, or make such other order as the case may require. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1681)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1517; 1919 § 1967; 1909 § 2532
MO Rev Stat § 526.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.150 - Extent of injunction to stay proceedings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.150. Extent of injunction to stay proceedings. — No injunction shall be granted to stay any judgment or proceeding, except so much of the recovery or cause of action as the plaintiff shall show himself equitably entitled to be relieved against, and so much as will cover costs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1669)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1505; 1919 § 1955; 1909 § 2520
MO Rev Stat § 526.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.160 - To operate as release of errors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.160. To operate as release of errors. — Every such injunction shall operate as a release of all errors in the proceedings that are prayed to be enjoined. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1670)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1506; 1919 § 1956; 1909 § 2521
MO Rev Stat § 526.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.170 - Motion to dissolve.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.170. Motion to dissolve. — After the answer is filed, a motion may be made at any time in term to dissolve the injunction, and upon such motion the parties may introduce testimony to support the petition and answer, and the court shall decide the motion upon the weight of testimony, without being bound to take the answer as true. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1678)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1514; 1919 § 1964; 1909 § 2529
MO Rev Stat § 526.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.180 - Motion, when continued.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   526.180. Motion, when continued. — If, after a motion for a dissolution of the injunction is made, either party will satisfy the court, by his own affidavit, or that of any other person for him, that any material specified part of the bill or answer to which he objects is untrue, that he has witnesses whose testimony he believes he can procure within a reasonable time, or other material testimony which will disprove the same, and that he has not been able to procure such testimony by using due diligence, the court may continue the motion until a later date. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1679, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1515; 1919 § 1965; 1909 § 2530  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 526.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.190 - Testimony, how taken.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.190. Testimony, how taken. — The testimony to be heard on such motion shall be taken as in other cases, except the affidavits which may have been filed with such petition or answer, which may be read on the hearing of such motion; and depositions, taken to support or dissolve an injunction, may be read on the final trial or other proceedings in such cause. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1680)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1516; 1919 § 1966; 1909 § 2531
MO Rev Stat § 526.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.200 - Damages upon dissolution.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.200. Damages upon dissolution. — Upon the dissolution of an injunction, in whole or in part, damages shall be assessed by a jury, or if neither party require a jury, by the court; but if money, or any proceedings for the collection of any money or demand, shall have been enjoined, the damages thereon shall not exceed ten percent on the amount released by the dissolution, exclusive of legal interest and costs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1673)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1509; 1919 § 1959; 1909 § 2524
MO Rev Stat § 526.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.210 - Judgment against sureties, how enforced.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   526.210. Judgment against sureties, how enforced. — The court shall enter judgment against the obligors in the bond, according to the circumstances of the case, including the damages so assessed, and may award execution thereon, or otherwise enforce such judgment, according to the rules and practice of the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1674)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1510; 1919 § 1960; 1909 § 2525
MO Rev Stat § 526.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 526 - Injunctions|Section 526.220 - Violation of injunction, how punished.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   526.220. Violation of injunction, how punished. — If any person disobey or violate an injunction after it is served on him, the circuit court to which it is returned shall issue an attachment against him for a contempt; and unless he shall disprove or purge the contempt, the judge may commit him to jail until the sitting of the court in which the injunction is pending, or take bail for his appearance in said court at a specified time, to answer for the contempt, and abide the order of the court, and in the meantime to observe and obey the injunction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1677, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1513; 1919 § 1963; 1909 § 2528  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 527.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.010 - Scope.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   527.010. Scope. — The circuit courts of this state, within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment or decree is prayed for. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect; and such declarations shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79  (1971) Petition by landowners for judicial declaration that defendant city was without right to extract the percolating waters for sale away from the premises when to do so would deprive plaintiffs, abutting landowners, of reasonable use of underground water for beneficial use of their own land and for injunction against city was sufficient as statement of claim for declaratory relief and to invoke trial court's equitable jurisdiction to consider request for injunction relief and should not have been dismissed without a hearing. Higday v. Nickolaus (A.), 469 S.W.2d 859. (1974) Held that declaratory judgment is proper procedure for determining parentage and legal status of a child with regard to a natural or adoptive parent. S____ v. W____ (A.), 514 S.W.2d 848. (1978) Held, it is not the purpose of declaratory judgment to allow prospective negligence action defendant to obtain a declaration of nonliability, though such action may be entertained in discretion of court. Campbell 66 Express v. Thermo King of Springfield (A.), 563 S.W.2d 776.
MO Rev Stat § 527.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.020 - Power to construe.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.020. Power to construe. — Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise, may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract, or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1127)  (1978) Held not-for-profit corporation is legal entity separate and apart from the persons who are members, and in order to have standing the corporation itself must have legally protected interest. Interest of individual members cannot give standing to corporation. Citizens Against Rezoning, Inc. v. St. Louis County (A.), 563 S.W.2d 173.
MO Rev Stat § 527.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.030 - Before breach.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.030. Before breach. — A contract may be construed either before or after there has been a breach thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1128)
MO Rev Stat § 527.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.040 - Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   527.040. Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when. — Any person interested as or through a personal representative, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, mentally incapacitated person, or insolvent may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto:  (1) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others; or  (2) To direct the personal representatives or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or  (3) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1129, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
MO Rev Stat § 527.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.050 - Enumeration not exclusive.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.050. Enumeration not exclusive. — The enumeration in sections 527.020 to 527.040, does not limit or restrict the exercise of the general powers conferred in section 527.010, in any proceeding where declaratory relief is sought, in which a judgment or decree will terminate the controversy or remove an uncertainty. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1130)
MO Rev Stat § 527.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.060 - Discretionary.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.060. Discretionary. — The court may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree where such judgment or decree, if rendered or entered, would not terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the proceeding. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1131)
MO Rev Stat § 527.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.070 - Review.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.070. Review. — All orders, judgments and decrees under sections 527.010 to 527.130 may be reviewed as other orders, judgments and decrees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1132)
MO Rev Stat § 527.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.080 - Supplemental relief.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.080. Supplemental relief. — Further relief based on a declaratory judgment or decree may be granted whenever necessary or proper. The application therefor shall be by petition to a court having jurisdiction to grant the relief. If the application be deemed sufficient, the court shall, on reasonable notice, require any adverse party whose rights have been adjudicated by the declaratory judgment or decree, to show cause why further relief should not be granted forthwith. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1133)
MO Rev Stat § 527.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.090 - Jury trial.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.090. Jury trial. — When a proceeding under sections 527.010 to 527.130 involves the determination of an issue of fact, such issue may be tried and determined in the same manner as issues of fact are tried and determined in other civil actions in the court in which the proceeding is pending. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1134)
MO Rev Stat § 527.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.100 - Costs.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.100. Costs. — In any proceeding under sections 527.010 to 527.130 the court may make such award of costs as may seem equitable and just. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1135)
MO Rev Stat § 527.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.110 - Parties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.110. Parties. — When declaratory relief is sought, all persons shall be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration, and no declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceedings. In any proceeding which involves the validity of a municipal ordinance or franchise, such municipality shall be made a party, and shall be entitled to be heard, and if the statute, ordinance or franchise is alleged to be unconstitutional, the attorney general of the state shall also be served with a copy of the proceeding and be entitled to be heard. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1136)  (1978) Held, that city of Lake Ozark was not an interested party in action under Sawyer Act when it intervened in annexation proceeding brought by city of Osage Beach, even though Lake Ozark was attempting to annex the same land. No question concerning validity of Lake Ozark annexation was raised. State ex rel. City of Lake Ozark v. City of Osage Beach (A.), 568 S.W.2d 539.
MO Rev Stat § 527.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.120 - Construction.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.120. Construction. — This law is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1137)
MO Rev Stat § 527.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.130 - "Person" defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.130. "Person" defined. — The word "person", wherever used in sections 527.010 to 527.130, shall be construed to mean any person, including a minor represented by next friend or guardian ad litem and any other person under disability lawfully represented, partnership, joint-stock company, corporation, unincorporated association or society or municipal or other corporation of any character whatsoever. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1138)
MO Rev Stat § 527.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.150 - Suits to determine interest and quiet title, how instituted — effect of judgment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.150. Suits to determine interest and quiet title, how instituted — effect of judgment. — 1. Any person claiming any title, estate or interest in real property, whether the same be legal or equitable, certain or contingent, present or in reversion, or remainder, whether in possession or not, may institute an action against any person or persons having or claiming to have any title, estate or interest in such property, whether in possession or not, to ascertain and determine the estate, title and interest of said parties, respectively, in such real estate, and to define and adjudge by its judgment or decree the title, estate and interest of the parties severally in and to such real property.  2. And upon the trial of such cause, if same be asked for in the pleadings of either party, the court may hear and finally determine any and all rights, claims, interest, liens and demands, whatsoever of the parties, or of any one of them, concerning or affecting said real property, and may award full and complete relief, whether legal or equitable, to the several parties, and to each of them, as fully and with the same force and effect as the court might or could in any other or different action brought by the parties, or any one of them, to enforce any such right, claim, interest, lien or demand, and the judgment or decree of the court when so rendered shall be as effectual between the parties thereto as if rendered in any other, different or separate action prosecuted therefor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1684)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1520; 1919 § 1970; 1909 § 2535  (1971) Where neither the plaintiffs nor defendants were claiming title to any lands of which the other had title and only issue was the location on the ground of the boundary line between the two tracts, ejectment was the proper remedy and it was error to decree title in plaintiff. Carroz v. Kaminiski (Mo.), 467 S.W.2d 871.
MO Rev Stat § 527.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.160 - Practice to conform to code of civil procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.160. Practice to conform to code of civil procedure. — The institution, prosecution, trial and determination of suits under section 527.150 shall conform in all respects to the provisions of the code of civil procedure now existing and be in force in this state concerning actions affecting real estate, and judgments rendered in such suits shall have the force and effect as therein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1685)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1521; 1919 § 1971; 1909 § 2536
MO Rev Stat § 527.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.170 - Costs in suits to determine interest and quiet title.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.170. Costs in suits to determine interest and quiet title. — If the defendant or defendants in suits brought under the provisions of sections 527.150 and 527.160 shall make default, or appearing, shall by answer admit the fact as stated in the petition and consent to judgment as prayed for, the plaintiff shall be adjudged to pay all costs of the suit. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1686)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1522; 1919 § 1972; 1909 § 2537
MO Rev Stat § 527.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name|Section 527.180 - Suit to perfect title by limitation — proceedings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   527.180. Suit to perfect title by limitation — proceedings. — In all cases when, under the provisions of section 516.070, the title or claim of any person out of possession of any real estate shall be barred by limitation, and the title thereto has vested in the party in possession, or the party under whom he claims, under the provisions of said section, the party holding the title which has vested by limitation under the provisions of said section may bring his action in the circuit court of the county in which the real estate is situated, to have his record title thereto perfected, and it shall be sufficient for him to state in his petition that he holds the title to such real estate, and that the same has vested in him or those under whom he claims, by limitation under the provisions of said section, and in such action it shall not be necessary to make any person a party defendant except such persons as may appear to have of record a claim or title adverse to that of plaintiff, and upon the trial of such cause, proof of the facts, showing title in plaintiff by limitation by reason of the provisions of said section, shall entitle him to a decree of the court declaring his title by limitation under the provisions of said section, and a copy of such decree may be entered of record in the office of the recorder of deeds for said county, and in any such action service of process may be had as provided in chapter 506 in causes affecting real estate, and if in any case the person whose adverse claim appears of record shall be dead, then the heirs or devisees of such person, or those claiming by, through or under him or them, if known, shall be made defendants, as adverse claimants, and if they be unknown to plaintiff, then he shall allege in his petition, under oath, that there are, or that he verily believes there are, persons interested in the subject matter of the petition as heirs or devisees of deceased, or as claiming by, through or under him or them, whose names he cannot insert therein because they are unknown to him, and shall describe the interest of such person, and how derived, so far as his knowledge extends, and service of process on such unknown person shall be had as in said chapter 506 is provided in case of unknown parties, and when such service shall be had, judgment and decree shall be rendered the same as though personal service had been had. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1687)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1523; 1919 § 1973; 1909 § 2538