Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 513

Executions and Exemptions

←513.385

Section 513.390.1

513.395→

August 28, 2015

Proceedings in court--referee may be appointed--evidence recorded--signed.

513.390. The examination provided for in this chapter shall be summary,

and either party named in the writ of fieri facias may be examined as a

witness in the inquiry, and the court or judge may appoint a referee, who

shall have full power and authority to hear and reduce to writing the

evidence of the parties to the writ, and to administer such oaths or

affirmations as may be necessary for the purposes of the investigations, the

referee being hereby authorized to administer oaths or affirmations to the

witness, in the same manner and with like effect as magistrates or other

officer now authorized by law to administer oaths or affirmations. Said

referee shall hear the evidence in the cause promptly and report such

evidence to the court or judge in writing. The evidence of each party sworn

as a witness and testifying, and reduced to writing, by order of the court or

by the referee as aforesaid, shall be subscribed by the witness, and a jurat

shall be attached thereto by the referee or the clerk of the court.



(RSMo 1939 § 1393)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 1229; 1919 § 1681; 1909 § 2250







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