Missouri Laws 88.017 – Condemnation of property — party defendant
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 88.017
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
The owners of property to be appropriated or damaged shall be made defendants by name, but it shall not be necessary to name any defendants except the owners of a freehold in the property to be appropriated. If the proceedings seek to affect lands of persons under conservatorship, the conservators must be made parties defendant. If the possessor of land to be affected has an estate less than a fee the person having the next vested estate in remainder or reversion must, if known, be made a party defendant. It shall not be necessary to name any person defendant who is neither in actual possession nor record owner of the property to be appropriated, but any person holding an interest in the property or who is damaged by such appropriation may be made a party thereto by appearing therein and shall have just compensation allowed and paid to him in such proceedings.