Terms Used In Missouri Laws 266.105

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.

When in the performance of his duties the director of agriculture applies to any court for a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violation or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this law or any rules and regulations under this law, the court may cause a temporary restraining order or a temporary or permanent injunction to issue. The provisions of chapter 526 to the contrary notwithstanding, the state, when acting as party plaintiff in an action for a temporary restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction under this section, shall execute a bond to the other party, in such sum as the court deems sufficient to secure the amount or other matter to be restrained or enjoined, and all changes that may be occasioned by the restraining order or injunction to the parties restrained or enjoined, or to any party interested in the subject matter of the controversy, conditioned that the state will abide the decision in the controversy, and pay all sums of money, damages and costs that shall be adjudged against the state if the temporary restraining order or injunction is dissolved.