Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 476

Courts--General Provisions

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Section 476.250.1

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August 28, 2015

No court to sit on Sunday.

476.250. No court shall be open or transact business on Sunday, unless it

be for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a jury; and every

adjournment of a court on Saturday shall always be to some other day than

Sunday, except such adjournment as may be made after a cause has been

committed to a jury; but this section shall not prevent the exercise of the

jurisdiction of any judge, when it shall be necessary in criminal cases, to

preserve the peace or arrest the offender, nor shall it prevent the issuing

and service of any attachment in a case where a debtor is about fraudulently

to secrete or remove his effects, nor shall it prevent the issuing and

service of such orders as exigencies may require.



(RSMo 1939 § 2027, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 1863; 1919 § 2358; 1909 § 3880



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