§ 872.120.Powers of Court In Conducting Action

Partition litigation often runs longer and touches more moving parts than an ordinary lawsuit -- referees filing reports, parties seeking allowances or accountings, disputes over how a sale should proceed. This section gives the court the tools to manage all of it. The court may hear and determine motions, reports, and accounts as they arise, and it may issue whatever decrees and orders are necessary or incidental to carrying out this title's purposes and enforcing its own prior decrees and orders.

That authority isn't a separate cause of action; it's a case-management power that lets the court adapt as the action unfolds -- confirming a referee's report under § 872.630, for example, or entering the compensatory adjustments authorized by § 872.140 -- without needing a specific statute for every contingency that might come up between the complaint and the final distribution.