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MO Rev Stat § 490.525 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.525 - Affidavit stating amount charged was reasonable and necessary, effect — restrictions — service — counteraffidavit, requirements — notice.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   490.525. Affidavit stating amount charged was reasonable and necessary, effect — restrictions — service — counteraffidavit, requirements — notice. — 1. This section shall apply to civil actions filed in any court of this state.  2. Unless a controverting affidavit is filed as provided by this section, an affidavit that the amount a person charged for a service was reasonable at the time and place that the service was provided and that the service was necessary is sufficient evidence to support a finding of fact by judge or jury that the amount charged was reasonable or that the service was necessary.  3. The affidavit shall:  (1) Be taken before an officer with authority to administer oaths;  (2) Be made by the person or that person's designee who provided the service;  (3) Include an itemized statement of the service and charge.  4. The party offering the affidavit in evidence or the party's attorney shall file the affidavit with the clerk of the court and serve a copy of the affidavit on each other party to the case at least thirty days before the day on which evidence is first presented at the trial of the case.  5. A party intending to controvert a claim reflected by the affidavit shall file a counteraffidavit with the clerk of the court and serve a copy of the counteraffidavit on each other party or the party's attorney of record:  (1) Not later than:  (a) Thirty days after the day he receives a copy of the affidavit; and  (b) At least fourteen days before the day on which evidence is first presented at the trial of the case; or  (2) With leave of the court, at any time before the commencement of evidence at trial.  6. The counteraffidavit shall give reasonable notice of the basis on which the party filing it intends at trial to controvert the claim reflected by the initial affidavit and must be taken before a person authorized to administer oaths. The counteraffidavit shall be made by a person who is qualified, by knowledge, skill, experience, training, education or other expertise, to testify in contravention of all or part of any of the matters contained in the initial affidavit. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 88, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
MO Rev Stat § 490.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.530 - Affidavit taken in another state before notary public or associate circuit judge.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.530. Affidavit taken in another state before notary public or associate circuit judge. — Any such affidavits, taken out of this state and in the United States, may be taken before a notary public, or before any associate circuit judge, and when taken before such associate circuit judge shall be accompanied by a certificate of the official character of such associate circuit judge, attested by the seal of state, or proved by the certificate and seal of the clerk of the same court of record in the state where the affidavit was made, certifying that such associate circuit judge had full power and authority to administer oaths at the time such affidavit was taken, and that the signature of such magistrate thereto is genuine. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1859)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1695; 1919 § 5382; 1909 § 6326
MO Rev Stat § 490.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.540 - Affidavit taken in another state before clerk or judge.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.540. Affidavit taken in another state before clerk or judge. — Any such affidavits, taken out of this state and in the United States, may be taken before any clerk of a court of record, and shall be certified, under the official seal of such clerk, or before any judge of any court of record, to be certified by such judge, and the official character of such judge shall be certified under the official seal of the clerk of such court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1860)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1696; 1919 § 5383; 1909 § 6327
MO Rev Stat § 490.550 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.550 - Affidavit to be filed in court before trial.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   490.550. Affidavit to be filed in court before trial. — Such affidavits shall not be received in evidence in the county commission, or probate division of the circuit court or before associate circuit judges, unless the same shall be filed in the cause five days before the trial, nor in any other division of the circuit court, unless the same shall be filed in the cause ten days before the trial. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1861, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1697; 1919 § 5384; 1909 § 6328  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 490.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.560 - Notary's certificate of protest.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.560. Notary's certificate of protest. — The certificate of a notary public, protesting a bill of exchange or negotiable promissory note, without as well as within this state, setting forth the demand of payment, refusal, protest therefor, and notice of dishonor to parties thereto, and the manner of each of said acts, and verified by his affidavit, shall, in all courts in this state, be prima facie evidence of such acts; provided, such certificate be filed in the cause for at least fifteen days before the trial thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1862)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1698; 1919 § 5385; 1909 § 6329
MO Rev Stat § 490.570 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.570 - Letters of attorney, how acknowledged and proved — read in evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.570. Letters of attorney, how acknowledged and proved — read in evidence, when. — Every letter of attorney, or other instrument of writing containing a power to do any act or business whatever, other than the conveyance of real estate, as agent or attorney for another, may be acknowledged or proved and certified, in the same manner as deeds conveying or affecting real estate are, by law, required to be acknowledged or proved and certified, and, when so acknowledged or proved and certified, may, with the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, be read in evidence without further proof of the execution thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1863)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1699; 1919 § 5386; 1909 § 6330
MO Rev Stat § 490.580 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.580 - Marriage records, evidence when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.580. Marriage records, evidence when. — The record books of marriages to be kept by the respective recorders, in pursuance of the provisions of law, and copies thereof, certified by the recorder under his official seal, shall be evidence in all courts. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1869)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1705; 1919 § 5392; 1909 § 6336
MO Rev Stat § 490.590 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.590 - Marriage contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.590. Marriage contracts. — Marriage contracts, duly proved or acknowledged and certified and recorded, shall be received in evidence in any court in this state, without further proof of their execution. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1870)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1706; 1919 § 5393; 1909 § 6337
MO Rev Stat § 490.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.600 - Certified copy, evidence when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.600. Certified copy, evidence when. — When it shall appear to the court that such marriage contract, duly acknowledged or proved and recorded, is lost or is not in the power of the party wishing to use it, a copy thereof, duly certified under the hand and seal of the recorder, may be received in evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1871)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1707; 1919 § 5394; 1909 § 6338  CROSS REFERENCE:  Marriage records destroyed, 451.170, 451.180, 451.190
MO Rev Stat § 490.620 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.620 - Person, when presumed to be dead.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   490.620. Person, when presumed to be dead. — If any person who shall have resided in this state goes from and does not return to this state for five successive years, he or she shall be presumed to be dead in any case wherein his or her death shall come in question, unless proof be made that he or she was alive within that time. The fact that such person was exposed to a specific peril of death due to a terrorist event may be a sufficient basis for determining at any time after such exposure that he or she died less than five years after the date his or her absence commenced. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1873, A.L. 1982 S.B. 700 Revision, A.L. 2002 S.B. 712)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1709; 1919 § 5396; 1909 § 6340  CROSS REFERENCES:  Presumption of death on five years' absence, 473.697 to 473.720  Simultaneous death law, Chap. 471
MO Rev Stat § 490.630 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.630 - Evidence, when translated into English, may be read.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.630. Evidence, when translated into English, may be read. — Whenever any written evidence in a cause shall be in language other than English, a written translation thereof into the English language, made by a competent translator, and verified by his affidavit, may be read in evidence instead of the original, if such original be competent evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1874)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1710; 1919 § 5397; 1909 § 6341  CROSS REFERENCE:  Deeds executed in foreign country admissible in evidence accompanied by sworn translation, 442.140
MO Rev Stat § 490.640 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.640 - Comparison of disputed with genuine writings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.640. Comparison of disputed with genuine writings. — Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses, and such writings and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same may be submitted to the court and jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1915)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1751; 1919 § 5438; 1909 § 6382
MO Rev Stat § 490.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.650 - Account book, when produced.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.650. Account book, when produced. — The court before which any action for the recovery of any sum or balance due on account, and where the matter at issue and on trial is a proper and usual subject of charge on books of account, may require either party to produce, at the trial, either his ledger or original book of entries, or both; and no disputed account shall be allowed upon the oath of the party, when it shall appear that he has a book of original entries, unless such book shall be produced upon reasonable request. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1888)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1724; 1919 § 5411; 1909 § 6355
MO Rev Stat § 490.660 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.660 - Short title.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.660. Short title. — Sections 490.660 to 490.690 may be cited as "The Uniform Business Records as Evidence Law". ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 275 § 1)  (1960) Overruling of defendant's objection to reading of original circuit court record showing defendant's previous convictions and from original St. Louis City Workhouse records showing his sentences served and his discharges upheld against assignment that the evidence did not comply with requirements of Business Records Act as it was not the purpose of the act to exclude properly identified original instruments. State v. Washington (Mo.), 335 S.W.2d 23. (1960) Testimony of witness, who was an employee of the coroner, as to autopsy upon the deceased, showing his death and the cause of the death, held admissible in evidence in criminal case under the business records as evidence law. State v. Lunsford (Mo.), 338 S.W.2d 868.  (1966) Opinions or reasons of planning commission recommending change in zoning of properties were not relevant to action for condemnation of land for highway purposes and the Uniform Business Records as Evidence Law did not make them admissible in evidence. State v. Koberna (Mo.), 396 S.W.2d 654. (1975) Evidence which showed that records were kept of all bookings for various charges in the arrest register, that the records were kept in the ordinary course of business, that there is a time limit under which one can be confined without booking, and that witness was familiar with the manner in which arrest records were kept was sufficient to sustain admission of arrest register into evidence over defendant's objection that there was no evidence as to mode of preparation or that it was made at or near the time of recorded arrest. State v. Jones (A.), 518 S.W.2d 322.
MO Rev Stat § 490.670 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.670 - Business defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.670. Business defined. — The term "business" shall include every kind of business, profession, occupation, calling or operation of institutions, whether carried on for profit or not. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 275 § 2)  (1952) Hospital held "business" within this section so that its records are made admissible. Melton v. St. L.P.S. Co., 363 Mo. 474, 251 S.W.2d 663.
MO Rev Stat § 490.680 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.680 - Records, competent evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.680. Records, competent evidence, when. — A record of an act, condition or event, shall, insofar as relevant, be competent evidence if the custodian or other qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of its preparation, and if it was made in the regular course of business, at or near the time of the act, condition or event, and if, in the opinion of the court, the sources of information, method and time of preparation were such as to justify its admission. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 275 § 3)  (1965) Testimony by parts manager of garage was satisfactory foundation for admission of repair bill under requirements of Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act. Langdon v. Koch (A.), 393 S.W.2d 66. (1968) Held that this section does not make admissible into evidence matters which would be otherwise inadmissible. Stewart v. Sioux City & New Orleans Barge Lines, Inc. (Mo.), 431 S.W.2d 205. (1973) Court held not to have abused discretion in refusing to admit letter in evidence, meaning of language "the sources of information, method and time of preparation were such as to justify its admission" discussed. Thomas v. Fred Weber Contractor, Inc. (A.), 498 S.W.2d 811. (1973) Fact that custodian of record had no personal knowledge of truth of record does not bar admission of record in evidence. Held that person "making the report" not person "offering the recital" must be competent to testify that the recital is correct. Thiens v. Harlan Fruit Co. (A.), 499 S.W.2d 223. (1975) Although record is admissible as exception to hearsay rule, evidence which would not be competent if offered in person is not admissible. Tri-State Motor Transit Co. v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. (A.), 528 S.W.2d 475. (1976) A trial court has wide discretion in accepting records into evidence once the requirements of this section are satisfied. State v. Jones (A.), 534 S.W.2d 556. (1976) To be admissible in a report it must be shown that the report is based on the entrant's own observation or on information of others whose business duty it was to transmit it to the entrant. State v. Boyington (A.), 544 S.W.2d 300. (1977) Pathologist reports and autopsy reports constitute admissible business records if statutory requirements are met. State v. Jennings (A.), 555 S.W.2d 366. (1987) Letter from plaintiff's doctor to plaintiff's lawyer indicating that plaintiff was injured in bus accident and briefly describing injuries is not admissible pursuant to this section for the letter was not a contemporaneous record of the doctor's observations, diagnosis, treatment, and progress of plaintiff but self-serving statement. Carmack v. BiState Development Agency, 731 S.W.2d 518 (Mo.App.E.D.). (2000) A 911 tape of victim reporting assault qualified as business record under hearsay rule where qualified witness testified as to tape's identity and mode of preparation and record was made in regular course of police department business. State v. Edwards, 31 S.W.3d 73 (Mo.App.W.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 490.690 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.690 - Interpretation and construction.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.690. Interpretation and construction. — Sections 490.660 to 490.690 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 275 § 4)
MO Rev Stat § 490.692 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.692 - Business records or copies admissible as evidence on affidavit of custodian, when — filing procedure — notice and copies of records to be served on all parties, when — form of affidavit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1994   490.692. Business records or copies admissible as evidence on affidavit of custodian, when — filing procedure — notice and copies of records to be served on all parties, when — form of affidavit. — 1. Any records or copies of records reproduced in the ordinary course of business by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, optical disk imaging, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original that would be admissible under sections 490.660 to 490.690 shall be admissible as a business record, subject to other substantive or procedural objections, in any court in this state upon the affidavit of the person who would otherwise provide the prerequisites of sections 490.660 to 490.690, that the records attached to the affidavit were kept as required by section 490.680.  2. No party shall be permitted to offer such business records into evidence pursuant to this section unless all other parties to the action have been served with copies of such records and such affidavit at least seven days prior to the day upon which trial of the cause commences.  3. The affidavit permitted by this section may be in form and content substantially as follows:   THE STATE OF ______   COUNTY OF ______   AFFIDAVIT   Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared ______, who, being by me duly sworn, deposed as follows:   My name is ______, I am of sound mind, capable of making this affidavit, and personally acquainted with the facts herein stated:   I am the custodian of the records of ______. Attached hereto are ______ pages of records from ______. These ______ pages of records are kept by ______ in the regular course of business, and it was the regular course of business of ______ for an employee or representative of ______ with knowledge of the act, event, condition, opinion, or diagnosis recorded to make the record or to transmit information thereof to be included in such record; and the record was made at or near the time of the act, event, condition, opinion or diagnosis. The records attached hereto are the original or exact duplicates of the original.      __________________       Affiant   In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this ______ day of ______, 20______.    __________________     __________________     (Signed)  (Seal)   ­­-------- (L. 1988 S.B. 425 § 5, A.L. 1992 S.B. 446, A.L. 1994 H.B. 963)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Banking records admissible in evidence by affidavit, when, filing form, 362.413  (2000) Department of Revenue records properly certified pursuant to section 302.312 could not be excluded due to lack of service as required by section. Russell v. Director of Revenue, 35 S.W.3d 507 (Mo.App.E.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 490.700 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.700 - Courts to take judicial notice of population.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.700. Courts to take judicial notice of population. — The courts of this state shall take judicial notice, without proof, of the population of all cities in this state according to the last enumeration of the inhabitants thereof, state, federal or municipal, made under or pursuant to any law of this state or of the United States. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7600)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7457; 1919 § 8868; 1909 § 9717
MO Rev Stat § 490.710 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.710 - Advance payment predicated on possible tort liability not admissible in evidence — payment a credit, when — limitation on action starts when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   490.710. Advance payment predicated on possible tort liability not admissible in evidence — payment a credit, when — limitation on action starts when. — 1. No advance payment or partial payment of damages, predicated on possible tort liability, as an accommodation to an injured person, or on his behalf to others, or to the heirs at law or dependents of a deceased person, of medical expenses, loss of earnings and other actual out-of-pocket expenses, because of an injury, death claim, property loss or potential claim against any person shall be admissible into evidence as an admission against interest or admission of liability by such party or self-insurer, or if paid by an insurer of such party, as the insurer's recognition of such liability with respect to such injured or deceased person, or with respect to any other claim arising from the same accident or event.  2. Any payments made as provided in subsection 1 of this section shall constitute a credit and be deductible from any final settlement made or judgment rendered with respect to such injured or deceased person. In the event of a trial involving such a claim, the fact that such payments have been made shall not be brought to the attention of the jury.  3. If after an advance payment or partial payment is made as provided in this section, and thereafter it is determined by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction that the person is not liable for an amount sufficient to satisfy the advance payment or partial payment, such person or insurer shall have no right of action for the recovery of such payment.  4. The period fixed for the limitation for the commencement of actions shall commence on the date of the last payment or partial payment made hereunder. ­­-------- (L. 1972 H.B. 166 § 1)  (1977) Held, there is no conflict between this section and MAI 7.01; evidence of advance payments or partial payments is not to be admitted in evidence before a jury and is not the subject of a MAI 7.01 modification. Taylor v. Yellow Cab Co. (Mo.), 548 S.W.2d 528. (1977) Held, difference between value of repaired automobile and its value before being damaged is a proper measure of damages. Rook v. John F. Oliver Trucking Co. (A.), 556 S.W.2d 200.