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MO Rev Stat § 492.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.090 - Officers authorized to take depositions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.090. Officers authorized to take depositions. — Depositions may be taken by some one of the following officers:  (1) If taken within this state, by some judge, justice, associate circuit judge, notary public or clerk of any court having a seal, in vacation of court, mayor or chief officer of a city or town having a seal of office;  (2) If taken without this state, by some officer out of this state appointed by authority of the laws of this state to take depositions, or by some consul or commercial or diplomatic representative of the United States, having a seal, or mayor or chief officer of any city, town or borough, having a seal of office, or by some judge, justice of the peace, or other judicial officer, or by some notary public, within the government where the witness may be found. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1920)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1756; 1919 § 5443; 1909 § 6387  (1988) Nonparty deposition of out-of-state witness taken by telephone is permissible and proper evidence for jury to consider. Patton v. May Dept. Stores Co., 762 S.W.2d 38 (Mo.banc).
MO Rev Stat § 492.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.100 - Commissioners of foreign courts may compel attendance of witnesses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.100. Commissioners of foreign courts may compel attendance of witnesses. — Commissioners appointed by any other state, or any of the territories of the United States, or the District of Columbia, for the purpose of taking depositions and affidavits, and the acknowledgments of deeds, powers of attorney and other instruments of writing, and residing in this state, shall have the same power to compel the attendance of witnesses in the taking of depositions and the proof of deeds, and in all other cases where it may be necessary in the discharge of the duties of their office, as is now given by law to any court of record in this state, in compelling the attendance of witnesses before such court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1914)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1750; 1919 § 5437; 1909 § 6381
MO Rev Stat § 492.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.110 - Witness residing out of this state, commission to issue.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.110. Witness residing out of this state, commission to issue. — When the witness resides out of this state, the party desiring his testimony may sue out of the court in which the suit is pending, or out of the office of the clerk thereof, a commission to take the deposition of the witness. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1918)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1754; 1919 § 5441; 1909 § 6385
MO Rev Stat § 492.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.120 - Commission, how issued, to whom directed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.120. Commission, how issued, to whom directed. — The commission shall be under the seal of the court, and shall be directed to any officer herein authorized to take depositions within the government where the witness may be found. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1921)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1757; 1919 § 5444; 1909 § 6388
MO Rev Stat § 492.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.130 - Power and duty of the officer under the commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.130. Power and duty of the officer under the commission. — The commission shall authorize such officer to cause to come before him such person or persons as shall be named to him by the party suing for the same, and shall command such officer to examine such person touching his knowledge of anything relating to the matter in controversy, and to reduce such examination to writing, and return the same, annexed to the commission, to the court wherein or the associate circuit judge before whom the action is pending, with all convenient speed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1922)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1758; 1919 § 5445; 1909 § 6389
MO Rev Stat § 492.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.140 - What officers out of this state may take depositions without commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.140. What officers out of this state may take depositions without commission. — Depositions may be taken by any officer appointed out of this state, by authority of the laws of this state to take depositions without any commission or order from any court or clerk. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1924)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1760; 1919 § 5447; 1909 § 6391
MO Rev Stat § 492.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.150 - Special commissioner appointed when, qualifications — time and place of depositions — enforcement of subpoenas issued by other officer.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   492.150. Special commissioner appointed when, qualifications — time and place of depositions — enforcement of subpoenas issued by other officer. — 1. When the witness is found in this state, the deposition may be taken by the proper officer without any commission or order of the court or clerk except that whenever a notice is given, as required by law, in a cause pending in any circuit court of any county or of the city of St. Louis to take such deposition, the party upon whom such notice is served, as provided by law, may, at any time after the service of such notice and before the taking of such deposition shall be commenced, after having given the party or his attorney of record on whose behalf such notice was served, one day's written notice by delivering a copy thereof to all adverse parties or their attorneys of record, of his intention to apply for the appointment of a special commissioner to take such deposition and of the time and place of making such application, make an application, accompanied by a service copy of the notice of application, to the court or to the judge thereof to appoint a special commissioner to take such deposition under such notice. The court or judge may, in its or his discretion, appoint a special commissioner to take the deposition. Such commissioner shall be an attorney of record, disinterested and of no kin to any party in the cause and may be a resident of any county or the city of St. Louis. The court or judge shall designate in the order the time and place for the taking of the deposition by the special commissioner but thereafter the commissioner may continue such taking from time to time.  2. The special commissioner shall alone be authorized to take the depositions but any subpoena which has been issued by an authorized officer and has been served upon the witness, as required by law, commanding his presence at the time and place designated in the notice is sufficient to require the attendance of the witness before the special commissioner at the time and place designated in the order appointing the special commissioner. In the event the witness does not attend in obedience to the subpoena, the special commissioner is authorized to compel his attendance by attachment as if the subpoena had been issued by him under the authority conferred on him by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1923, A.L. 1959 S.B. 247, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1759; 1919 § 5446; 1909 § 6390  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 492.155 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.155 - Powers of special commissioner — rulings on evidence, review.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   492.155. Powers of special commissioner — rulings on evidence, review. — 1. The special commissioner, for the purpose of taking the depositions and certifying and returning them as required by law, possesses the same power and authority and is subject to the same duties and obligations as are now or hereafter conferred and imposed by law on officers authorized to take depositions.  2. The special commissioner also has the power and authority to hear and determine all objections to testimony and evidence and to admit or exclude the same in the same manner and to the same extent as the court would have in the trial of the cause before the court.  3. Whenever the special commissioner sustains objections to testimony or evidence, the party against whom the ruling is made has the right to have the ruling reported by the special commissioner to the court. It is the duty of the special commissioner to report the same at such time as he deems advisable either during or immediately after the close of the taking of depositions in the cause to the court.  4. Upon the report being presented to the court, the court shall forthwith pass upon the ruling so reported and make an order affirming or reversing it. In the event the ruling is reversed, the court shall enter an order of record directing the special commissioner to admit the testimony or evidence so excluded.  5. Whenever the special commissioner reports his ruling to the court, he shall adjourn the taking of depositions to such time and place as he may direct and enforce the attendance of any witness thereat by attachment or otherwise, so as to enable a party to have any question answered which he has ruled out and which the court may direct to be answered, together with such other questions as may appear proper under the ruling of the court reversing the special commissioner. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1923, A.L. 1959 S.B. 247 § 492.150)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1759; 1919 § 5446; 1909 § 6390
MO Rev Stat § 492.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.160 - Notice to be given if the party or his attorney resides in this state, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.160. Notice to be given if the party or his attorney resides in this state, how. — In all cases where depositions shall be taken by virtue of sections 492.080 to 492.150, the party at whose instance they are taken shall cause notice in writing of the time and place of taking them to be served on the adverse party, or his attorney of record in the cause, where such party or his attorney resides in this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1925)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1761; 1919 § 5448; 1909 § 6392
MO Rev Stat § 492.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.170 - If they do not reside in this state, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.170. If they do not reside in this state, how. — If neither the adverse party nor his attorney reside in this state, posting such notice in the office of the associate circuit judge or of the clerk of the court where the suit is pending shall be deemed sufficient notice. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1926)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1762; 1919 § 5449; 1909 § 6393
MO Rev Stat § 492.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.180 - Notice, how served on party or attorney.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.180. Notice, how served on party or attorney. — Such notice, when served on the adverse party or his attorney, shall be:  (1) By delivering to him a copy thereof;  (2) By leaving a copy at his usual place of abode, with some member of his family above the age of fifteen years, or at his office with some clerk above the age of fifteen years; and  (3) In case the adverse party is a railroad or other corporation, such notice may be served by delivering a copy thereof to any station agent of such railroad corporation, or to any local agent of such other corporation, at his office in the county in which the suit was brought or is pending. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1927)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1763; 1919 § 5450; 1909 § 6394
MO Rev Stat § 492.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.190 - By whom served.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.190. By whom served. — The service of any notice required by sections 492.080 to 492.400 may be by any sheriff, marshal, constable, or by any competent witness, who shall make affidavit to the service. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1928)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1764; 1919 § 5451; 1909 § 6395
MO Rev Stat § 492.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.200 - When notice shall be served.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.200. When notice shall be served. — In all cases where notice is required by sections 492.080 to 492.400, the same shall be served at least three days before the day of taking the depositions, and one day additional for every fifty miles for the first three hundred miles, and beyond that one additional day for each one hundred miles of distance from the place of serving or setting up such notice, to the place of taking the depositions, except as otherwise provided in said sections; provided, that not more than one notice to take depositions in the same case shall be given for the same day. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1929)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1765; 1919 § 5452; 1909 § 6396
MO Rev Stat § 492.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.210 - Time may be shortened by court or judge in vacation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   492.210. Time may be shortened by court or judge in vacation. — When it is desired to take depositions to be read in suits pending in any of the courts of this state, the court in which any suit is pending, or the judge thereof in vacation, may shorten the time for which notice is to be given, as now required, upon application of the party desiring it, with due notice of such application to the opposite party or his attorney; and notice of taking depositions, given for such time as is designated by the court or judge, shall in all cases be sufficient. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1930, A.L. 1959 S.B. 247)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1766; 1919 § 5453; 1909 § 6397
MO Rev Stat § 492.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.220 - Commission to examine witnesses on interrogatories when awarded.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.220. Commission to examine witnesses on interrogatories when awarded. — When a party to any suit pending in any court of record in this state shall make application to such court in term time, or to the judge thereof in vacation, for a commission to take the examination of witnesses, and shall support the application by affidavit, and shall have given to the adverse party reasonable notice of such application, the court or judge may, upon such terms as it may think proper, award such commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1931)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1767; 1919 § 5454; 1909 § 6398  CROSS REFERENCE:  Interrogatories, generally, 510.020, 510.060
MO Rev Stat § 492.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.230 - To whom directed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.230. To whom directed. — The commission shall be to such person as the court or judge shall appoint, to be named in the commission, or to some proper officer of the government where the witnesses may be, commanding such person or officer to examine such witnesses, naming them, upon interrogatories. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1932)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1768; 1919 § 5455; 1909 § 6399
MO Rev Stat § 492.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.240 - Interrogatories to be annexed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.240. Interrogatories to be annexed. — The interrogatories shall be annexed to the commission, and shall be drawn and signed by the parties or their counsel in the cause, under the sanction and direction of the court, or judge thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1933)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1769; 1919 § 5456; 1909 § 6400
MO Rev Stat § 492.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.250 - Command of the commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.250. Command of the commission. — The commission shall further command the person or officer to whom the same is directed to reduce the examination of the witnesses and their answers to the interrogatories annexed to writing, and return the same, with the commission, into the court with all convenient speed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1934)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1770; 1919 § 5457; 1909 § 6401
MO Rev Stat § 492.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.260 - Officer to propound interrogatories.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.260. Officer to propound interrogatories. — Such person or other officer shall examine the witnesses named in the commission, touching the matters contained in the interrogatories annexed, and none others, at any time and place when and where such witness may be found. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1935)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1771; 1919 § 5458; 1909 § 6402
MO Rev Stat § 492.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.270 - Officer may compel attendance of witness — contempt — if witness imprisoned, on what terms discharged.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.270. Officer may compel attendance of witness — contempt — if witness imprisoned, on what terms discharged. — 1. Every person, judge or other officer of the state required to take the depositions or examination of witnesses, in pursuance of sections 492.080 to 492.400 or by virtue of any commission issuing out of any court of record in this or any other government, shall have power to issue subpoenas for witnesses to appear and testify, and to compel their attendance, in the same manner and under like penalties as any court of record of this state.  2. Any person summoned as a witness in virtue of the provisions of sections 492.080 to 492.400 and attending, who shall refuse to give evidence which may be lawfully required to be given by him, on oath or affirmation, may be committed to prison by the officer or person authorized to take his deposition or testimony, there to remain without bail until he gives such evidence, or until he be discharged by due course of law; provided, that in case such person be discharged from such commitment or imprisonment upon habeas corpus sued therefor, the party or parties litigant, in whose behalf the refused evidence shall have been required, shall be liable to pay such person the costs by him incurred in effecting such discharge; and the judge or court hearing the application for discharge may, in its discretion, at the time of such discharge, allow a further sum of not exceeding twenty-five dollars for an attorney's fee for prosecuting the proceedings on habeas corpus, to be paid by such party or parties litigant to the person so discharged; and provided further, that until such costs and attorney's fee, if one be allowed, are paid or tendered to such person, he shall not be required further to depose or testify in the cause in which he was so summoned. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1937)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1773; 1919 § 5460; 1909 § 6404
MO Rev Stat § 492.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.280 - Production of documentary evidence on taking of deposition, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   492.280. Production of documentary evidence on taking of deposition, when. — Upon order of the court in which a cause is pending, a subpoena may command the production of objects and documentary evidence on the taking of a deposition, and the court may also order a party to produce objects and documentary evidence on the taking of a deposition. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 353 § 142, A.L. 1985 S.B. 5, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 492.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.290 - Witnesses to be examined on oath.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.290. Witnesses to be examined on oath. — Every witness examined, in pursuance of sections 492.080 to 492.400, shall be sworn or affirmed to testify the whole truth, and his examination shall be reduced to writing, or taken in shorthand and transcribed, in writing, in the presence of the person or officer before whom the same shall be taken. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1936)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1772; 1919 § 5459; 1909 § 6403
MO Rev Stat § 492.292 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.292 - Venue for deposition of employee of a publicly funded crime laboratory.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   492.292. Venue for deposition of employee of a publicly funded crime laboratory. — Unless otherwise ordered by the court, any deposition taken of an employee of a publicly funded crime laboratory located within the state, where the subject matter of the deposition concerns the official duties of the employee, shall be taken in the county where the employee is employed by the laboratory. ­­-------- (L. 2005 S.B. 216)
MO Rev Stat § 492.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony|Section 492.300 - Adverse party may take depositions by giving notice, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   492.300. Adverse party may take depositions by giving notice, when. — When the party causing depositions to be taken under a notice shall have completed the taking thereof, the adverse party may, before the same or any other officer authorized to take depositions, and at the same place, proceed immediately, or on the next day, to take any depositions he may desire to have read in the cause, and may continue the taking thereof from day to day, at said place, and between the hours specified in the notice, until he shall have taken all he desires; but in order thereto, he shall, before or during the time of the taking of the depositions on behalf of the other party, give such other party, or the attorney representing him, notice of his intention to do so, and of the person before whom he proposes to take such deposition. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1942)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1778; 1919 § 5465; 1909 § 6409