Section 490.620 – Person, when presumed to be dead.
Effective – 28 Aug 2002 490.620. Person, when presumed to be dead. — If any person who shall have resided in this state goes from and does not return to this state for five successive years, he or she shall be presumed to be dead in any case wherein his or her death shall come […]
Section 490.630 – Evidence, when translated into English, may be read.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.630. Evidence, when translated into English, may be read. — Whenever any written evidence in a cause shall be in language other than English, a written translation thereof into the English language, made by a competent translator, and verified by his affidavit, may be read in evidence instead of the […]
Section 490.640 – Comparison of disputed with genuine writings.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.640. Comparison of disputed with genuine writings. — Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses, and such writings and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same may be submitted to the […]
Section 490.650 – Account book, when produced.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.650. Account book, when produced. — The court before which any action for the recovery of any sum or balance due on account, and where the matter at issue and on trial is a proper and usual subject of charge on books of account, may require either party to produce, […]
Section 490.660 – Short title.
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 490.660. Short title. — Sections 490.660 to 490.690 may be cited as “The Uniform Business Records as Evidence Law”. ——– (L. 1949 p. 275 § 1) (1960) Overruling of defendant’s objection to reading of original circuit court record showing defendant’s previous convictions and from original St. Louis City Workhouse records […]
Section 490.670 – Business defined.
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 490.670. Business defined. — The term “business” shall include every kind of business, profession, occupation, calling or operation of institutions, whether carried on for profit or not. ——– (L. 1949 p. 275 § 2) (1952) Hospital held “business” within this section so that its records are made admissible. Melton v. […]
Section 490.680 – Records, competent evidence, when.
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 490.680. Records, competent evidence, when. — A record of an act, condition or event, shall, insofar as relevant, be competent evidence if the custodian or other qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of its preparation, and if it was made in the regular course of business, at […]
Section 490.690 – Interpretation and construction.
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 490.690. Interpretation and construction. — Sections 490.660 to 490.690 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. ——– (L. 1949 p. 275 § 4)
Section 490.550 – Affidavit to be filed in court before trial.
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 490.550. Affidavit to be filed in court before trial. — Such affidavits shall not be received in evidence in the county commission, or probate division of the circuit court or before associate circuit judges, unless the same shall be filed in the cause five days before the trial, nor in […]
Section 490.560 – Notary’s certificate of protest.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.560. Notary’s certificate of protest. — The certificate of a notary public, protesting a bill of exchange or negotiable promissory note, without as well as within this state, setting forth the demand of payment, refusal, protest therefor, and notice of dishonor to parties thereto, and the manner of each of […]