Mo. Rev. Stat. § 88.057
When the council shall confirm the proceedings, judgment shall be rendered that the city have and hold the property so to be taken upon payment of the compensation assessed therefor, for the purpose specified in the initiatory ordinance, that the city recover the respective amounts assessed against private property, and that the lots, tracts and parcels of land so assessed for benefits stand severally charged and bound for the payment of the respective assessments and the interest that may accrue thereon, and the city pay the amount, if any, charged against it, and if said assessments are by the ordinance aforesaid made payable in more than one installment the judgment shall so recite. The city shall not have the right to take possession of the property condemned until it has paid to the owners, or to the clerk of the court for the use of said owners, the amount of damages determined as aforesaid.
§ 88.057, RSMo