STATE STATUTES & CODES

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Chapter 492 Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony

• 492.010. Officers and notary public authorized to administer oaths.
• 492.020. Oaths required to be taken before particular officer may be taken before others, when.
• 492.030. Parties may affirm, when.
• 492.040. Officer shall adopt mode most binding on conscience, when.
• 492.050. Parties to be sworn according to the ceremonies of their religion.
• 492.060. Persons deemed to have been lawfully sworn, when.
• 492.070. Oaths, affirmations, depositions of persons in military service, who may take--form--validation of those previously taken.
• 492.080. Depositions may be obtained conditionally.
• 492.090. Officers authorized to take depositions.
• 492.100. Commissioners of foreign courts may compel attendance of witnesses.
• 492.110. Witness residing out of this state, commission to issue.
• 492.120. Commission, how issued, to whom directed.
• 492.130. Power and duty of the officer under the commission.
• 492.140. What officers out of this state may take depositions without commission.
• 492.150. Special commissioner appointed when, qualifications--time and place of depositions--enforcement of subpoenas issued by other officer.
• 492.155. Powers of special commissioner--rulings on evidence, review.
• 492.160. Notice to be given if the party or his attorney resides in this state, how.
• 492.170. If they do not reside in this state, how.
• 492.180. Notice, how served on party or attorney.
• 492.190. By whom served.
• 492.200. When notice shall be served.
• 492.210. Time may be shortened by court or judge in vacation.
• 492.220. Commission to examine witnesses on interrogatories when awarded.
• 492.230. To whom directed.
• 492.240. Interrogatories to be annexed.
• 492.250. Command of the commission.
• 492.260. Officer to propound interrogatories.
• 492.270. Officer may compel attendance of witness--contempt--if witness imprisoned, on what terms discharged.
• 492.280. Production of documentary evidence on taking of deposition, when.
• 492.290. Witnesses to be examined on oath.
• 492.292. Venue for deposition of employee of a publicly funded crime laboratory.
• 492.300. Adverse party may take depositions by giving notice, when.
• 492.303. Essential witness, defined--deposition may be taken by prosecutor, procedure--costs--videotape authorized, used when.
• 492.304. Visual and aural recordings of child under fourteen admissible, when.
• 492.310. Depositions taken in foreign countries to be taken in language of the witness--must be translated.
• 492.320. Residence of witness certified by officer.
• 492.330. Objections to competency or relevancy, how taken.
• 492.340. Deposition shall be submitted to witness for examination--signing of deposition.
• 492.350. Certificate of officer taking depositions.
• 492.360. Exhibits to be enclosed with depositions and directed to clerk.
• 492.370. What constitutes sufficient evidence of the authentication of depositions.
• 492.380. Official character of officer in the United States, how attested.
• 492.390. Official character of officer in foreign country, how attested.
• 492.400. When depositions may be read.
• 492.410. Evidence preserved in bill of exceptions may be used, how.
• 492.420. Depositions may be taken to perpetuate testimony, when.
• 492.430. Petition for commission to take depositions.
• 492.440. By whom and how issued--to whom directed.
• 492.450. Notice of time and place of taking depositions.
• 492.460. If person is minor, notice to be served upon whom.
• 492.470. Publication of notice to nonresidents.
• 492.480. General notice given, how and when.
• 492.490. Subpoenas to witnesses.
• 492.500. Duty of officer.
• 492.510. Questions put to witnesses to be reduced to writing.
• 492.520. Answers to be reduced to writing.
• 492.530. Power of adjournment.
• 492.540. Depositions, how certified and to whom delivered.
• 492.550. May be sent by mail or otherwise, when.
• 492.560. Duty of recorder on receiving deposition.
• 492.570. Depositions, legally taken, may be read, when.
• 492.580. Legal exceptions may be taken.
• 492.590. Costs and expenses of taking depositions, how awarded and collected--limitations.

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