Terms Used In Missouri Laws 249.650

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Suits to collect any tax bills herein authorized may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction by the person to whom issued or any assignee in their own names. Every such certified tax bill shall, in an action brought to recover the amount thereof, be prima facie evidence of the validity of the charges against the property therein described; and where suit is brought before the liens have expired, said liens shall continue until the termination of such suits and the satisfaction of the judgments.