Missouri Statutes
§ 271.040 — Any householder may take up stray, when.
Missouri § 271.040
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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 271.040 (2026).
Text
If any horse, mule or ass, liable to be taken up, be found on any plantation, and the occupant thereof refuse to take up the same, any householder of the county may give said occupant five days' notice, in writing of his intention to take up the said stray, and at the end of five days from the time of giving notice, may take up said animal and proceed in the same manner as if it had been found on his own plantation, except that in filing the affidavit required in section 271.060 , he may omit to state that the same was taken up on his plantation, but in lieu thereof shall state the name of the occupant of the plantation on which the same was found, and also that he gave said occupant five days' notice before taking up.
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Legislative History
(RSMo 1939 § 14501)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12827; 1919 § 4317; 1909 § 818
Nearby Sections
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§ 271.010
Notice and bond.§ 271.020
Notice — penalty.§ 271.030
Condition of bond.§ 271.050
Notice, how given — contents.§ 271.060
Duty of taker-up.§ 271.080
Appraisers — oath — duty.§ 271.090
Record of strays taken up.§ 271.100
Notice published in newspaper, when.§ 271.130
Reclamation by owner.§ 271.150
Amount for keeping stray.Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
Bluebook (online)
Missouri § 271.040, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/mo/271/271.040.