Terms Used In Missouri Laws 532.140

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

The writ may be served by delivering the same to the officer or person to whom it is directed, or by being left at the jail or other place in which the prisoner may be confined, with any under officer, jailer or other person having charge of the prisoner for the time being.