Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries
Section 494.490 - Number of jurors — three-fourths or more jurors to return verdict in civil cases — how verdict is signed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996
494.490. Number of jurors — three-fourths or more jurors to return verdict in civil cases — how verdict is signed. — In all trials of civil actions before a circuit judge, or an associate circuit judge sitting as a circuit judge, a jury shall consist of twelve persons selected pursuant to sections 494.400 to 494.505, unless all parties agree on a lesser number, but not less than eight, in which case the number of veniremen shall be reduced accordingly. Three-fourths or more jurors may return a lawful verdict. All verdicts shall be signed by each juror who agrees to the verdict.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXIV - Juries

Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries

Section 494.400 - Qualifications of jurors, selection, exclusions prohibited.

Section 494.405 - Board of jury commissioners, duties, quorum, meetings, members — circuit clerks, duties — supervisors, appointment, certain counties — jury supervisors, deputies, salaries, duties, oath.

Section 494.410 - Master jury list.

Section 494.415 - Qualified jury list — juror qualification form, contents — postponement of service.

Section 494.420 - Selection of jurors from qualified jury list.

Section 494.425 - Persons ineligible for jury service.

Section 494.430 - Persons entitled to be excused from jury service — determinations made by judge — undue or extreme physical or financial hardship defined — documentation required, when.

Section 494.432 - Postponement of jury duty, when.

Section 494.435 - Panel exhausted, other jurors summoned.

Section 494.440 - Data processing devices may be used in compiling lists.

Section 494.442 - List of licensed drivers to contain Social Security numbers — numbers to be provided to board of jury commissioners — election authority to provide numbers — effective date.

Section 494.445 - Petit jurors, maximum number of days required to serve, exception.

Section 494.450 - Juror nonattendance, criminal contempt, fine.

Section 494.455 - Compensation of jurors, mileage — additional compensation may be authorized, when.

Section 494.460 - Employers prohibited from disciplining employees because of jury duty, action for damages, attorney fees — employees not required to use leave for jury duty — automatic postponement of jury duty, when.

Section 494.465 - Challenge of jury on grounds that it was not selected in conformity with sections 494.400 to 494.505.

Section 494.470 - Challenges for cause, grounds for — juror on panel not summoned off as a witness, exception.

Section 494.475 - Inhabitants of city or county not disqualified when city or county is a party.

Section 494.480 - Peremptory challenges — civil cases, multiple parties, allocation — criminal cases — qualification of juror as basis for new trial — costs for impaneling jury to be paid, when.

Section 494.485 - Alternate jurors.

Section 494.490 - Number of jurors — three-fourths or more jurors to return verdict in civil cases — how verdict is signed.

Section 494.495 - Jury may separate, when — duty of court.

Section 494.500 - Aliens, jury in the trial of.

Section 494.505 - Jurors may be summoned from another county, when — procedure — transportation furnished jury instead of mileage, when.