Terms Used In Missouri Laws 514.160

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

If any person shall take an appeal from a judgment of any court to the supreme court, or to any district of the court of appeals, and the judgment shall be affirmed or the appeal discontinued or dismissed, the appellee shall recover his costs; and if the judgment be reversed, the appellant shall recover his costs.