Title XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS Chapter 521 • Effective - 28 Aug 1939 521.440. Powers of the attorney under section 521.430. — The person appointed attorney, as directed, shall, as long as his appointment continues in force, be deemed, to all intents and purposes, the representative of the decedent, and shall have the same power to file pleadings, order process, or take any other steps in the defense, as the decedent would have were he living. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 1481) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1317; 1919 § 1768; 1909 § 2337
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