Terms Used In Missouri Laws 533.090

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

If the court should in like time be satisfied that the bond of the defendant shall not be good and sufficient, a like order shall be made that the defendant give a new bond, with good and sufficient sureties, within such time as the court in such order shall direct; and upon his failing to comply with such order the court shall make a further order that the proper officer retake the property and deliver it to the plaintiff, and that the defendant deliver the same to the officer therefor, and that the answer or other pleadings, if any, of defendant be stricken out, and render such judgment for the plaintiff as the court may by law render against the defendant and his sureties.