Mo. Rev. Stat. § 513.105

All account books, accounts, notes, bills, bonds, certificates of deposit and other evidences of debt belonging to a debtor shall be liable to seizure, and when seized, shall be placed in the hands of a suitable person, to be appointed by the court, or judge thereof in vacation, as a receiver, who shall take the same oath, execute like bond, have and perform the same powers and duties, and be subject with his sureties, to the same provisions and penalties in all respects, as in the case of a receiver and his sureties, appointed in virtue of the statute providing for suits by attachment.