Terms Used In Missouri Laws 513.070

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • real estate: as used in this chapter shall be construed to include all estate and interest in lands, tenements and hereditaments, including a manufactured home as defined in section 700. See Missouri Laws 513.010
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.

When execution shall be issued against any person, as heir or devisee, the officer to whom the same shall be directed, shall be commanded only that of the goods and chattels which were of the ancestor or testator at the time of his death, he cause to be made the debt, damages and costs; and if sufficient goods and chattels cannot be found in his county, then that of the real estate which was of the ancestor or testator at the time of his death, he cause to be made the debt, damages and costs or sum of money in such execution specified.