Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate
Section 442.010 - Definitions.

Effective - 01 Mar 2011, 2 histories
442.010. Definitions. — 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 as coextensive in meaning with lands, tenements and hereditaments, and as embracing all chattels real and as including a manufactured home as defined in section 700.010, which is real estate as defined in subsection 7 of section 442.015.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3439, A.L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 2, A.L. 2010 S.B. 630)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3052; 1919 § 2211; 1909 § 2822
Effective 3-01-11

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property

Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate

Section 442.010 - Definitions.

Section 442.012 - Solar energy is a property right — eminent domain not permitted — easement requirements.

Section 442.014 - Private landowner protection act — definitions — conservation easement permitted, when, validity — applicability.

Section 442.015 - Conveyance or encumbrance of manufactured homes, requirements — affidavit of affixation — deemed real estate, when — detachment or severance from real estate, effect of.

Section 442.020 - Conveyances of lands.

Section 442.025 - Conveyance to self and others to create joint estate.

Section 442.030 - Conveyance of property of spouse — covenants.

Section 442.035 - Conveyance of estates by the entireties by minors or disabled persons, conservator's powers and duties.

Section 442.040 - Person under eighteen years of age may join in conveyance with adult spouse.

Section 442.055 - Contamination of premises, radioactive or hazardous material — disclosure to prospective lessees, purchasers, or transferees — penalty.

Section 442.060 - Private or public corporations may convey real estate.

Section 442.070 - Person may convey, notwithstanding adverse possession.

Section 442.080 - Conveyances by persons under eighteen years of age binding, when.

Section 442.090 - Conveyances by minor veterans valid when necessary to obtain advantage of federal law.

Section 442.095 - Sections 442.090 to 442.120 applicable to whom.

Section 442.100 - Disability of minority removed to enable veterans to acquire or convey property.

Section 442.110 - Honorable discharge of veteran, evidence necessary.

Section 442.120 - Loans to underage servicemen authorized.

Section 442.130 - Execution of deeds and other conveyances — marital status of grantor required on written instruments.

Section 442.135 - Descriptions of subdivided property, contents.

Section 442.140 - Execution of deeds in foreign language — translation — recording.

Section 442.145 - Personal appearance, acknowledgement by communication technology.

Section 442.150 - Proof or acknowledgment, by whom taken.

Section 442.155 - Acknowledgment of instruments not affecting lands — certificate — curative provision.

Section 442.160 - Acknowledgments of instruments by persons in military service — form — instruments previously acknowledged validated, when.

Section 442.180 - Certificate to be endorsed on conveyance.

Section 442.190 - Certificate, how made.

Section 442.200 - Identity of persons making acknowledgments, how ascertained.

Section 442.210 - Certificate of acknowledgment — contents.

Section 442.220 - Conveyances of bounty lands, how acknowledged.

Section 442.230 - Such instrument valid.

Section 442.240 - Such instrument, filed for record, to impart notice.

Section 442.250 - Copies to be read in evidence.

Section 442.260 - Proof of execution of instruments.

Section 442.270 - When proof of subscribing witness shall be taken.

Section 442.280 - What subscribing witness shall prove before certificate shall be granted.

Section 442.290 - What facts certificate of proof shall set forth.

Section 442.300 - Proof, when grantor and witnesses are dead.

Section 442.310 - Certificate of proof, when granted.

Section 442.320 - Certificate to recite evidence required by section 442.310.

Section 442.330 - Subscribing witnesses, when and how summoned to prove execution of instrument.

Section 442.340 - Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer.

Section 442.350 - Provisions relating to acknowledgment or proof not to extend to last wills and testaments.

Section 442.360 - Powers of attorney, how acknowledged and proved.

Section 442.370 - When deemed revoked.

Section 442.380 - Instruments to be recorded.

Section 442.390 - Notice imparted from time of filing for record.

Section 442.400 - Not valid until recorded.

Section 442.403 - Restrictive covenants relating to discrimination invalid — effect — no liability by existence of covenant in document filed by specific date — refusal to record, when — certificate of release of prohibited covenants.

Section 442.404 - Political signs, homeowners' associations not to prohibit — reasonable restrictions and removal permitted, when — solar panels and sale signs not to be prohibited or restricted, exceptions.

Section 442.410 - Deeds to be recorded, where record lost — fees.

Section 442.420 - "Grant, bargain and sell", how construed.

Section 442.430 - Title acquired by grantor after conveyance inures to grantee.

Section 442.440 - Conveyances to counties for their use — effect.

Section 442.450 - Conveyance to more than one — effect.

Section 442.460 - The term "heirs" not necessary to convey a fee simple estate.

Section 442.470 - Entails not allowed — the remainder in fee simple — to whom it shall pass.

Section 442.480 - Remainder to take effect on death of person without heirs — how construed.

Section 442.490 - Remainder limited to heirs of a person having a life estate — how disposed of.

Section 442.500 - Lineal and collateral warranties abolished.

Section 442.510 - An estate limited in remainder to the son or daughter of any person to be begotten, how disposed of.

Section 442.520 - A future estate, on the death of any person without heirs, how defeated.

Section 442.530 - Value of life estates — how computed.

Section 442.540 - Rule of calculation.

Section 442.550 - Examples.

Section 442.555 - Rule against perpetuities, application of modified.

Section 442.557 - General power of appointment exercisable at death of donee, perpetuities period to run from death of donee.

Section 442.558 - Transfer fee covenants not to run with title to real property — lien void, when.

Section 442.560 - Aliens and corporations of foreign countries may acquire, hold and alienate real estate — exception.

Section 442.566 - Definitions.

Section 442.571 - Aliens or foreign business, limitations on owning agricultural land — violation — acquisitions submitted to department, when — rulemaking authority.

Section 442.576 - Duties of director of agriculture and attorney general — court to order divestiture — when to be accomplished — failure.

Section 442.581 - Lease deemed to be ownership, when.

Section 442.586 - Lands owned by resident aliens — cessation of residence — failure to divest, effect.

Section 442.591 - Exceptions.

Section 442.592 - Report required — content — failure to file, civil penalty, venue — foreign person, defined — rules, procedure.

Section 442.600 - Psychologically impacted real property, defined — disclosure to buyer not mandatory — no cause of action for failure to disclose.

Section 442.606 - Methamphetamine production, seller of property to disclose to buyer such production and certain criminal convictions.