Terms Used In Missouri Laws 88.097

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

All the damages allowed shall, within six months from any final decree terminating the litigation, from which no appeal or writ of error is prosecuted, be paid out of the city treasury to the parties entitled thereto, and if the ownership of the property to which such damages are allowed is in controversy, the amount of the damages allowed said property shall, within the time aforesaid, be paid into the circuit court for the use of the successful claimant of the property.