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Statutes > Missouri > T36 > C532 > 532_440Limitations on court under this chapter.
532.440. But no court, under the provisions of this chapter,shall in any other matter have power to inquire into the legalityor justice of any process, judgment, decree or order of any courtlegally constituted, nor into the justice or propriety of anycommitment for contempt, made by any court, officer or body,according to law, and plainly charged in such commitment, asherein provided; but nothing in this section contained, nor anyother part of this chapter, shall be so construed as to preventany prisoner from being discharged when the matter alleged in theorder of commitment shall not, in point of law, amount to acontempt.
(RSMo 1939 § 1624)Prior revisions: 1929 § 1460; 1919 § 1910; 1909 § 2475
