271.040. Any householder may take up stray, when. - Missouri Statutes

Any householder may take up stray, when.

271.040. If any horse, mule or ass, liable to be taken up,be found on any plantation, and the occupant thereof refuse totake up the same, any householder of the county may give saidoccupant five days' notice, in writing of his intention to takeup the said stray, and at the end of five days from the time ofgiving notice, may take up said animal and proceed in the samemanner as if it had been found on his own plantation, except thatin filing the affidavit required in section 271.060, he may omitto state that the same was taken up on his plantation, but inlieu thereof shall state the name of the occupant of theplantation on which the same was found, and also that he gavesaid occupant five days' notice before taking up.

(RSMo 1939 § 14501)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12827; 1919 § 4317; 1909 § 818