513.045. Duties of clerks in issuing executions. - Missouri Statutes

Duties of clerks in issuing executions.

513.045. The clerk shall, before delivering any execution issued bythe clerk, endorse thereon the debt, damages and costs, or damages andcosts, to be recovered, and shall maintain in his office record, and entertherein an abstract of all executions issued out of his office, showing thedate, the names of the parties, amount of debt, damages and costs, ordamages and costs to what officer directed, when made returnable, thereturn, if any, and a reference to the location of the record wherein thejudgment or decree whereon such execution issued is entered; and every suchclerk shall, moreover, keep a regular index to such abstract of executions,indexed or arranged alphabetically, both by the name of the plaintiff anddefendant therein.

(RSMo 1939 § 1322, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1158; 1919 § 1609; 1909 § 2178