Terms Used In Missouri Laws 532.200

  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • 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.

If any officer or person upon whom a writ of habeas corpus shall have been served shall have in his custody or power, or under his restraint, the party for whose benefit the writ was awarded, he shall also bring the body of such person before the court, according to the command of the writ, and within the time herein specified for making return, except in case of sickness of such person, as herein provided.