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- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.550 · Affidavit to be filed in court before trial.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.560 · Notary's certificate of protest.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.570 · Letters of attorney, how acknowledged and proved — read in evidence, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.580 · Marriage records, evidence when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.590 · Marriage contracts.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.600 · Certified copy, evidence when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.620 · Person, when presumed to be dead.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.630 · Evidence, when translated into English, may be read.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.640 · Comparison of disputed with genuine writings.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.650 · Account book, when produced.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.660 · Short title.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.670 · Business defined.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.680 · Records, competent evidence, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.690 · Interpretation and construction.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.692 · Business records or copies admissible as evidence on affidavit of custodian, when — filing procedure — notice and copies of records to be served on all parties, when — form of affidavit.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.700 · Courts to take judicial notice of population.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.710 · Advance payment predicated on possible tort liability not admissible in evidence — payment a credit, when — limitation on action starts when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.715 · Collateral source rule and payments rendered prior to trial, admissibility of evidence — effect on special damages — evidence of actual cost of medical care or treatment permitted.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.717 · Photographs of personal property to be evidence in prosecution for wrongful taking — wrongful taking, defined — requirements — property returned to owner, when — notarized affidavit as evidence.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.720 · Definitions, admissibility of TDD, TTY, or TT communications.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.722 · Admissibility of communication through TDD, TTY, or TT.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.733 · Hazardous materials, defined, admission of samples into evidence, when — photos, videotapes or lab reports deemed competent evidence.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.010 · Witness's interest does not disqualify — exception — statements of deceased persons and incompetents and other parties to the transaction — abrogation of deadman statute.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.015 · Victim or witness in certain cases not to be interrogated as to prior sexual conduct.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.016 · Otherwise inadmissible witness statement admissible in criminal proceeding, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.030 · Adverse party may be compelled to testify in civil cases.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.040 · Sections 491.010 and 491.030 construed.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.050 · Convicts competent witnesses — convictions and certain pleas may be proved to affect credibility.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.060 · Persons incompetent to testify — exceptions, children in certain cases.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.065 · Informants, disclosure requirements.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.070 · Cross-examination of witnesses — scope.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.074 · Prior inconsistent statement may be admissible in criminal cases as substantive evidence.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.075 · Statement of child under eighteen or vulnerable person admissible, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.078 · Juvenile court adjudication, use to affect credibility — sexual offense adjudication, affect on credibility — multiple adjudications, admissible, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.080 · Testimony of witness not to be used to convict him of fraud.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.090 · Summons of witnesses — procedure — consequences of failure to appear.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.100 · Summons, form — how issued — subpoena for property, court's authority to quash, when exercised.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.110 · Subpoenas, by whom served.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.120 · Subpoenas, how served and returned.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.130 · Fees to be tendered, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.140 · Witness liable to action, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.150 · Attendance, how enforced.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.160 · Attachment may issue, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.170 · Witness attached, may be discharged on bail.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.180 · Penalty where party refuses to attend and testify.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.190 · Fine for nonattendance.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.200 · Penalty for refusing to testify.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.205 · Court may compel testimony, witness immunity, exception, when, penalty.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.210 · Witness not excused from testifying, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.220 · Witness, when free from arrest.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.230 · Power to issue writ of habeas corpus — persons detained in correctional facility shall not attend civil proceeding — exceptions — conditions.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.240 · Writ to obtain witness from county jail.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.250 · Application for writ.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.260 · Application of prosecuting officers.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.270 · Prisoner to be remanded after testifying.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.280 · Fees of witnesses.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.290 · Fees, how paid.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.310 · Associate circuit judge to issue subpoenas.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.320 · Validity of subpoena.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.330 · Associate circuit judge may order witness attached, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.340 · Attachment to be executed as in criminal cases — cost.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.350 · Penalty for failure to obey subpoena without excuse.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.360 · Continuance of case — associate circuit judge to notify witnesses.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.370 · Cost of surplus witnesses paid by whom.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.380 · Competency of witnesses, how determined — oath of witnesses.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.400 · Definitions.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.410 · Summoning witness in this state to testify in another state.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.420 · Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.430 · Exemption from arrest and service of process.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.440 · Uniformity of interpretation.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.450 · Short title.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.600 · Courts with criminal jurisdiction may issue orders to protect witness or victim.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.610 · Violation of protective orders, penalties.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.620 · Pretrial releases of defendant conditional — notice of prohibited witness tampering activities required.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.640 · Prosecutors coordinators training council may provide for security of witnesses and families, when — powers — request by law enforcement agencies, content — delegation of program administration, to whom.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.641 · Pretrial witness protection services fund created — use of moneys — application, contents, closed record.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.675 · Citation of sections 491.675 to 491.705.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.678 · Child defined.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.680 · Court may order video recording of alleged child victim, when — procedure — transcript — exclusion of defendant from proceedings, opportunity to review — cross-examination.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.685 · Defendant may be excluded from child victim deposition proceedings, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.687 · Court may order videotaped reexamination, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.690 · Provisions of sections 491.675 to 491.693 not to apply where defendant has waived right to counsel — exceptions.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.693 · Testimony to be under oath.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.696 · Child defined — videotaped testimony for juvenile court hearings.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.699 · Juvenile court hearings — court may order video recording of alleged child victim, when — procedure — cross-examination — counsel appointed for perpetrator, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.702 · Perpetrator may be excluded from child victim deposition proceeding, when — sequestration of victim — review of tapes required, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.705 · Court may order videotaped reexamination, when — testimony to be under oath.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.710 · Hearings involving child witnesses given docket priority — delays or continuances granted, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.725 · Citation of law — definitions — applicability.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.010 · Officers and notary public authorized to administer oaths.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.020 · Oaths required to be taken before particular officer may be taken before others, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.030 · Parties may affirm, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.040 · Officer shall adopt mode most binding on conscience, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.050 · Parties to be sworn according to the ceremonies of their religion.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.060 · Persons deemed to have been lawfully sworn, when.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.070 · Oaths, affirmations, depositions of persons in military service, who may take — form — validation of those previously taken.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.080 · Depositions may be obtained conditionally.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.090 · Officers authorized to take depositions.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.100 · Commissioners of foreign courts may compel attendance of witnesses.
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 492.110 · Witness residing out of this state, commission to issue.