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2021 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages
Section 537.400 - Double damages for willful fires.
Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 537.400 (2021)
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
537.400. Double damages for willful fires. — If any person shall willfully set on fire any woods, marshes or prairies whether his own or not, so as thereby to occasion any damage to any other person, such person shall make satisfaction in double damages to the party injured, to be recovered by civil action.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3660)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3270; 1919 § 4225; 1909 § 5433
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