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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1942)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1778; 1919 § 5465; 1909 § 6409
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements
Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony
Section 492.010 - Officers and notary public authorized to administer oaths.
Section 492.030 - Parties may affirm, when.
Section 492.040 - Officer shall adopt mode most binding on conscience, when.
Section 492.050 - Parties to be sworn according to the ceremonies of their religion.
Section 492.060 - Persons deemed to have been lawfully sworn, when.
Section 492.080 - Depositions may be obtained conditionally.
Section 492.090 - Officers authorized to take depositions.
Section 492.100 - Commissioners of foreign courts may compel attendance of witnesses.
Section 492.110 - Witness residing out of this state, commission to issue.
Section 492.120 - Commission, how issued, to whom directed.
Section 492.130 - Power and duty of the officer under the commission.
Section 492.140 - What officers out of this state may take depositions without commission.
Section 492.155 - Powers of special commissioner — rulings on evidence, review.
Section 492.160 - Notice to be given if the party or his attorney resides in this state, how.
Section 492.170 - If they do not reside in this state, how.
Section 492.180 - Notice, how served on party or attorney.
Section 492.190 - By whom served.
Section 492.200 - When notice shall be served.
Section 492.210 - Time may be shortened by court or judge in vacation.
Section 492.220 - Commission to examine witnesses on interrogatories when awarded.
Section 492.230 - To whom directed.
Section 492.240 - Interrogatories to be annexed.
Section 492.250 - Command of the commission.
Section 492.260 - Officer to propound interrogatories.
Section 492.280 - Production of documentary evidence on taking of deposition, when.
Section 492.290 - Witnesses to be examined on oath.
Section 492.292 - Venue for deposition of employee of a publicly funded crime laboratory.
Section 492.300 - Adverse party may take depositions by giving notice, when.
Section 492.304 - Visual and aural recordings of child under fourteen admissible, when.
Section 492.320 - Residence of witness certified by officer.
Section 492.330 - Objections to competency or relevancy, how taken.
Section 492.340 - Deposition shall be submitted to witness for examination — signing of deposition.
Section 492.350 - Certificate of officer taking depositions.
Section 492.360 - Exhibits to be enclosed with depositions and directed to clerk.
Section 492.370 - What constitutes sufficient evidence of the authentication of depositions.
Section 492.380 - Official character of officer in the United States, how attested.
Section 492.390 - Official character of officer in foreign country, how attested.
Section 492.400 - When depositions may be read.
Section 492.410 - Evidence preserved in bill of exceptions may be used, how.
Section 492.420 - Depositions may be taken to perpetuate testimony, when.
Section 492.430 - Petition for commission to take depositions.
Section 492.440 - By whom and how issued — to whom directed.
Section 492.450 - Notice of time and place of taking depositions.
Section 492.460 - If person is minor, notice to be served upon whom.
Section 492.470 - Publication of notice to nonresidents.
Section 492.480 - General notice given, how and when.
Section 492.490 - Subpoenas to witnesses.
Section 492.500 - Duty of officer.
Section 492.510 - Questions put to witnesses to be reduced to writing.
Section 492.520 - Answers to be reduced to writing.
Section 492.530 - Power of adjournment.
Section 492.540 - Depositions, how certified and to whom delivered.
Section 492.550 - May be sent by mail or otherwise, when.
Section 492.560 - Duty of recorder on receiving deposition.
Section 492.570 - Depositions, legally taken, may be read, when.
Section 492.580 - Legal exceptions may be taken.
Section 492.590 - Costs and expenses of taking depositions, how awarded and collected — limitations.