Effective - 28 Aug 1939
470.090. Who may appear and defend. — All persons, bodies politic and corporate, named in such information as terre-tenants or claimants to the estate, may appear and plead to such proceeding, and may traverse or deny the facts stated in the information and the title of the state to the lands and tenements therein mentioned and described, at any time on or before the third day after the return of such scire facias; and any other person claiming an interest in such estate may appear and be made a defendant, and plead by motion for that purpose, in open court, within the time allowed for pleading.
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(RSMo 1939 § 628)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 628; 1919 § 5317; 1909 § 6264
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability
Section 470.010 - Estates escheat, when.
Section 470.030 - Proceedings when moneys are not paid to state treasurer as required.
Section 470.060 - When lands transfer to state.
Section 470.070 - Scire facias to issue.
Section 470.080 - To be served, when.
Section 470.090 - Who may appear and defend.
Section 470.100 - Judgment rendered, when.
Section 470.110 - Issues shall be made up and tried, when.
Section 470.120 - Judgment for state, when.
Section 470.130 - Judgment for defendant, when.
Section 470.140 - Writ of possession to issue.
Section 470.150 - Copy of record filed with state treasurer.
Section 470.160 - Appeals taken.
Section 470.170 - Lands claimed within five years, by whom.
Section 470.180 - Petition served on whom.
Section 470.200 - Court may order sale.
Section 470.210 - Proceeds paid into abandoned fund account.