Terms Used In Missouri Laws 56.550

  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Before entering upon the duties of their office, the circuit attorney and said assistants shall be severally sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Missouri, and to faithfully demean themselves in office. The duties of said assistants shall be to assist the circuit attorney generally in the conduct of his office, under his direction and subject to his control; and said circuit attorney and his assistants shall institute and prosecute all criminal actions in the circuit court. The circuit attorney and said assistant circuit attorneys, when so directed by the circuit attorney, may attend upon the grand jury.