Effective - 28 Aug 1939
451.010. Marriage a civil contract. — Marriage is considered in law as a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting is essential.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3360)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2973; 1919 § 7298; 1909 § 8279
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXX - Domestic Relations
Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
Section 451.010 - Marriage a civil contract.
Section 451.022 - Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
Section 451.030 - Bigamous marriage void.
Section 451.080 - Recorder to issue license — form of.
Section 451.100 - Marriages solemnized by whom.
Section 451.110 - Certificate of marriage to be given.
Section 451.115 - Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.
Section 451.130 - Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
Section 451.150 - Licenses to be recorded — fee.
Section 451.160 - Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
Section 451.170 - Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
Section 451.180 - New certificate obtained, how.
Section 451.190 - Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
Section 451.200 - Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
Section 451.210 - Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
Section 451.220 - Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
Section 451.230 - How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
Section 451.240 - Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
Section 451.270 - Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.