513.145. Sale of personal property--notice of time and place--exception. - Missouri Statutes

Sale of personal property--notice of time and place--exception.

513.145. No goods and chattels or other personal effects,seized and taken by virtue of any execution, attachment orreplevin, shall be sold, until the officer having charge of thewrit shall have given ten days' notice of the time and place ofsale, and of property to be sold, by at least threeadvertisements, put up in public places in the township in whichthe sale is to be made; provided, however, that when any propertyshall have been actually seized by virtue of either of said writsof execution, attachment or replevin, which is in a perishablecondition, or is likely to perish or depreciate in value to anyconsiderable extent before such ten days' notice would expire,then the court may order such property sold by the officer incharge of such writ and property, without notice, for cash, andto the best interests of the parties to such suit, and accountfor the proceeds to the court before whom such suit is pending.

(RSMo 1939 § 1352, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1188; 1919 § 1639; 1909 § 2208

Effective 1-2-79