Terms Used In Missouri Laws 434.010

  • 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

All judgments by confession, conveyances, bonds, bills, notes and securities, when the consideration is money or property won at any game, gambling device, or by any bet or wager whatever, shall be void and may be set aside and vacated by any court of competent jurisdiction, upon suit brought for that purpose by the person so confessing, giving, entering into or executing the same, or by his executors or administrators or by any creditor, heir, devisee, purchaser or other person interested therein.