Terms Used In Missouri Laws 522.020

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • 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

In all cases where, by the law of this state, any person is authorized to prosecute a suit to his own use, on any official bond, he shall sue in the name of the state, or other obligee named in the bond, stating in the process, pleadings, proceedings and record in such action, that the same is brought at the relation and to the use of the person so suing.