Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 492

Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony

←492.560

Section 492.570.1

492.580→

August 28, 2015

Depositions, legally taken, may be read, when.

492.570. Depositions taken and certified in conformity to sections

492.420 to 492.560, or duly certified copies of the record of such

depositions, may be used and read as evidence in any cause or judicial

proceeding to which they relate, in favor of any parties thereto, or any or

either of them, or his or their personal representatives, heirs or assigns,

or their legal representatives



(1) If the deponent is dead;



(2) If he be unable to give testimony, by reason of mental incapacity;



(3) If he be rendered incompetent, by judgment of law;



(4) If he be removed, so that his testimony cannot be obtained.



(RSMo 1939 § 1968, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 1804; 1919 § 5491; 1909 § 6434







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