Terms Used In Missouri Laws 526.040

  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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.

Before any party shall be entitled to the injunction herein provided, he shall have filed in the circuit court, or in the office of the clerk thereof, having jurisdiction of the suit, his petition setting forth his cause of action; and when the injunction shall be granted by the circuit judge, it shall be in writing, signed by the judge, and returned together with the bond, to the office of the clerk of the circuit court wherein such petition shall have been filed, and become a part of the record in said cause.