Adjudication of costs in partition.

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Effective - 28 Aug 1939

514.220. Adjudication of costs in partition. — In all cases founded on the statutes concerning the partition of lands, the costs shall be paid by the parties plaintiff and defendant, according to their respective interests in the lands which may be the subject of the proceedings; and the court shall render judgment against each party for his or her share of such costs. If the lands, or any part thereof, be sold in partition, then the costs adjudged against the party or parties whose interests shall be sold shall be paid out of the proceeds of such sale; and against all parties to such proceedings among whom partition shall be made in kind, an execution may issue, and shall be levied on the lands, tenements, goods and chattels of each party to such proceedings, whose share is set off in kind; provided, that no lands, tenements, goods or chattels shall be levied upon and sold, under and by virtue of such execution, except for the satisfaction of such part of said costs as may be adjudged against the owner thereof.

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(RSMo 1939 § 1422)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1258; 1919 § 1710; 1909 § 2279

CROSS REFERENCES:

Costs in partition to be paid from proceeds of sale, 528.460

Partition costs, 528.220, 528.320, 528.350, 528.450, 528.530, 528.580, 528.610


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