If an application for trial de novo is timely filed and a bond be given and approved and, in the meantime, execution shall have been issued, the associate circuit judge shall give the applicant a certificate that an application for trial de novo in the cause has been allowed and bond given, and on presentation of such certificate to the sheriff, he shall forthwith release the property of the defendant that may have been taken in execution.
§ 512.210, RSMo
Effective 1/2/1979