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Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.
The Missouri Attorney General is the attorney for the state, representing the legal interests of Missouri and its state agencies. As the state's chief legal officer, the attorney general must prosecute or defend all appeals to which the state is a party, including every felony criminal case appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri and Missouri Court of Appeals.
1 Edward Bates: Democratic-Republican: 1820–1821 2 Rufus Easton: Democratic-Republican: 1821–1826 3 Robert W. Wells: Democratic: 1826–1836 4 William B. Napton: Democratic: 1836–1839 5 Samuel Mansfield Bay: Democratic: 1839–1845 6 Benjamin F. Stringfellow: Democratic: 1845–1849 7 William A. Robards: Democratic: 1849–1851 8 James B ...
The Revised Statutes of the United States (in citations, Rev. Stat.) was the first official codification of the Acts of Congress. It was enacted into law in 1874. The purpose of the Revised Statutes was to make it easier to research federal law without needing to consult the individual Acts of Congress published in the United States Statutes at Large.
The Missouri Sunshine Law is meant to give light to important government issues in the state. The Missouri Sunshine Law is the common name for Chapter 610 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, the primary law regarding freedom of the public to access information from any public or quasi-public governmental body in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]
Civil and criminal cases are usually heard in different courts. In jurisdictions based on English common-law systems, the party bringing a criminal charge (in most cases, the state) is called the "prosecution", but the party bringing most forms of civil action is the "plaintiff" or "claimant". In both kinds of action the other party is known as ...
The Missouri General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bicameral General Assembly is composed of a 34-member Senate and a 163-member House of Representatives. Elections are conducted using first-past-the-post voting in single-member districts of roughly equal population.
Illinois Code of Civil Procedure § 2-1401 [87] Indiana: Indiana Rules of Post-Conviction Procedure § 1 [88] Iowa: Iowa Code Annotated § 822.1 [89] Kansas: Kansas Statutes Annotated 60-260 [90] Kentucky: Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure CR 60.02 [91] Louisiana: Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Art. 930.8 [92] Maine: Maine Revised ...