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2016 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS (521-538)
Chapter 521 Attachments
Section 521.440 Powers of the attorney under section 521.430.

MO Rev Stat § 521.440 (2016) What's This?

521.440. The person appointed attorney, as directed, shall, as long as his appointment continues in force, be deemed, to all intents and purposes, the representative of the decedent, and shall have the same power to file pleadings, order process, or take any other steps in the defense, as the decedent would have were he living.

(RSMo 1939 § 1481)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1317; 1919 § 1768; 1909 § 2337

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