Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 432 - Contracts Required to Be in Writing
Section 432.050 - Leases, not in writing, operate as estates at will.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
432.050. Leases, not in writing, operate as estates at will. — All leases, estates, interests of freehold or term of years, or any uncertain interest of, in, to or out of any messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments, made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parole, and not put in writing and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only, and shall not, either in law or equity, be deemed or taken to have any other or greater force.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3352)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2965; 1919 § 2167; 1909 § 2781
(1957) To meet the requirements of this section, a lease may be made up of several writings such as letters, etc., and it is not necessary that all of such writings be signed by lessor and lessee. Midland Realty Co. v. Manzella (A.), 308 S.W.2d 326.

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Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXVIII - Contracts and Contractual Relations

Chapter 432 - Contracts Required to Be in Writing

Section 432.010 - Statute of frauds — contracts to be in writing.

Section 432.030 - Assignment of wages.

Section 432.040 - Representations of credit to be in writing.

Section 432.045 - Credit agreements, defined — action by debtor on certain credit agreements prohibited unless in writing — contents of written statement requirement — oral modification permitted, when.

Section 432.047 - Credit agreements, actions not to be maintained, when — credit agreement defined.

Section 432.050 - Leases, not in writing, operate as estates at will.