Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 442 · 79 active provisions
When used in this chapter unless otherwise apparent from the context: (1) The term "adult" shall be construed as meaning any person who is eighteen years of age or older; (2) The term "minor" shall be construed as meaning any person who is less than eighteen years of age; (3) The term "real estate" shall be construed a…
1. The right to utilize solar energy is a property right but eminent domain may not be used to obtain such property right. 2. Any easements obtained for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, remodeling or acquisition of a solar energy device shall only be created in writing and shall be subject to the same conve…
1. This act* shall be known and may be cited as the "Private Landowner Protection Act". 2. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms mean: (1) "Conservation easement", a nonpossessory interest of a holder in real property imposing limitations or affirmative obligations the purp…
1. For the purposes of this section, "manufactured home" means a manufactured home as defined in section 700.010. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purposes of 11 U.S.C. Section 1322(b)(2), a manufactured home shall be deemed to be real property. For the purposes of this section, a manufactured home is permanently…
Conveyances of lands, or of any estate or interest therein, may be made by deed executed by any person having authority to convey the same, or by his agent or attorney, and acknowledged and recorded as herein directed, without any other act or ceremony whatever.
1. Any person or persons owning real estate, or any interest therein, which he or they have power to convey, may effectively convey such real estate by a conveyance naming himself or themselves and another person or persons, or one or more of themselves and another person or persons, as grantees, and the conveyance has…
A husband and wife may convey the real estate of the husband or wife by their joint deed acknowledged and certified as herein provided. Where the property conveyed is owned by the husband and wife as an estate by the entirety, then both shall be bound by the covenants therein expressed or implied.
1. If any property, real or personal, including homestead property, is held by a husband and wife as tenants by the entirety, whether such entireties estate was created before or is created after July 1, 1997, and if one spouse is an adult and competent and the other spouse is under the age of eighteen or disabled as d…
When any person under eighteen years of age is married to an adult who has or claims any interest in real estate and wishes to convey, encumber, lease or otherwise dispose or affect the same, the minor shall be deemed of age for the purpose of joining with his adult spouse in the execution of any instrument affecting t…
In the event that any premises to be rented, leased, sold, transferred, or conveyed is or was previously contaminated with radioactive material or other hazardous material, the owner, seller, landlord, or other transferor shall disclose in writing to the prospective lessee, purchaser, or transferee the fact the premise…
Any corporation, private or public, or otherwise organized, authorized to hold real estate, may convey the same by deed, sealed with the common seal of such corporation, and signed by the president or presiding member or trustee thereof; or any other officer, who by virtue of holding any designated office, the incumben…
Any person claiming title to real estate may, notwithstanding there may be an adverse possession thereof, sell and convey his interest therein, in the same manner and with like effect as if he was in the actual possession thereof.
All deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust and other instruments affecting title to real estate hereafter executed by any person under the age of eighteen shall be binding upon such person under the age of eighteen unless he shall file a deed or other instrument duly acknowledged in the office of the recorder of deeds where…
1. For the purposes of taking advantage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, any person who is a resident of Missouri and who served honorably in the active military or naval service of the United States may execute a deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument, affecting the title to or dispositi…
The provisions of sections 442.090 to 442.120 inclusive shall apply to any person otherwise eligible for a loan, guaranty, or insurance on a loan, pursuant to the Act of Congress of the United States entitled the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, and the minor spouse of any eligible veteran.
1. The disability of minority of any person not under the age of eighteen otherwise eligible for guaranty of loan pursuant to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, and of the spouse of such person, is hereby removed solely for the purposes of acquiring or encumbering, or selling and conveying property…
The record of the discharged veteran in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county of his or her residence, or other official evidence, in writing, of such person's discharge, other than dishonorable, from the military service, as provided for in sections 442.100 to 442.120, shall be deemed and taken as establis…
Any person, either natural or corporate, residing or authorized to do business in the state of Missouri, the investment powers of whom or which are governed by statute, is hereby empowered and authorized to make any loan guaranteed as provided by the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, or for which there is a commit…
1. All deeds or other conveyances of lands, or of any estate or interest therein, shall be subscribed by the party granting the same, or by his lawful agent, and shall be acknowledged or proved and certified in the manner herein prescribed. 2. All written instruments conveying real estate or any interest in real estate…
1. If a property is subdivided and a new property description is created, such property description shall include the name, and professional license number, if applicable, of the person that created the property description. 2. No person shall submit for recording a conveyance of any property under subsection 1 of this…
1. All deeds, mortgages or other instruments of writing conveying or affecting real estate, and all proofs and acknowledgments of the same executed in a foreign country, and in accordance with the laws of this state, may be made and taken in the language of such country. 2. And the same, accompanied with a sworn transl…
1. For the purposes of sections 442.150 to 442.360, a person may personally appear before the officer taking the acknowledgment by: (1) Being in the same physical location as another person and close enough to see, hear, communicate with, and exchange tangible identification credentials with that individual; or (2) Int…
The proof or acknowledgment of every conveyance or instrument in writing affecting real estate in law or equity, including deeds of married women, shall be taken by some one of the following courts or officers: (1) If acknowledged or proved within this state, by some court having a seal, or some judge, justice or clerk…
1. All officers within or without the state of Missouri now by the laws of this state authorized to take the proof or acknowledgment of any conveyance or other instrument in writing affecting real estate, shall have the power to take the proof or acknowledgment of any instrument in writing. 2. The certificate of the pr…
1. Any commissioned officer, other than a commissioned warrant officer, of any of the Armed Forces of the United States, whether or not on active duty, may take proof or acknowledgment of any instrument in writing, of any member of any of the Armed Forces of the United States, whether or not on active duty, with like e…