Effective - 28 Aug 2009
516.200. If defendant be out of state before or departs after cause of action commences, when action may be commenced. — If at any time when any cause of action herein specified accrues against any person who is a resident of this state, and he is absent therefrom, such action may be commenced within the times herein respectively limited, after the return of such person into the state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1023, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 871; 1919 § 1326; 1909 § 1897
(2001) Section denying statute of limitations defense to defendants who have moved from the state burdens interstate commerce and is unconstitutional; statute cannot be justified due to applicability of long-arm jurisdiction over such defendants. Rademeyer v. Farris, 145 F.Supp.2d 1096 (E.D.Mo.), aff'd, 284 F.3d 833 (8th Cir. 2002).
(2008) Tolling statute of limitations for persons who become non-residents of Missouri during limitation period violates Commerce Clause. State ex rel. Bloomquist v. Schneider, 244 S.W.3d 139 (Mo.banc).
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations
Chapter 516 - Statutes of Limitation
Section 516.010 - Actions for recovery of lands commenced, when.
Section 516.020 - Right of possession not affected by descent.
Section 516.030 - Disabilities — twenty-one years.
Section 516.040 - Possession of land under color of title, effect.
Section 516.050 - Limitation where person under disability dies.
Section 516.070 - Limitation where equitable title to land emanates from government.
Section 516.080 - When legal title has not emanated from the United States.
Section 516.090 - Statute not to extend to certain lands.
Section 516.095 - Action for breach of covenant restricting land use, barred, when.
Section 516.098 - Surveys of land error or omissions — action must be brought when.
Section 516.100 - Period of limitation prescribed.
Section 516.103 - No tolling by filing of administrative actions, certain suits.
Section 516.105 - Actions against health care and mental health providers (medical malpractice).
Section 516.110 - What action shall be commenced within ten years.
Section 516.120 - What actions within five years.
Section 516.130 - What actions within three years.
Section 516.140 - What actions within two years.
Section 516.145 - What actions within one year.
Section 516.150 - No action to foreclose mortgage after note barred.
Section 516.160 - In account current, when cause of action accrued.
Section 516.170 - May delay filing of action, when.
Section 516.180 - On death of person under disability, cause of action survives.
Section 516.190 - Limitations on actions originating in other states.
Section 516.210 - Time not to be computed during a war.
Section 516.220 - Not to apply to what.
Section 516.230 - Further savings in cases of nonsuits.
Section 516.240 - If defendant dies, when and against whom new suit to be brought.
Section 516.250 - Suit abated by death of plaintiff, when — when and by whom new suit brought.
Section 516.260 - Suit stayed by injunction, time not computed.
Section 516.270 - Disability not to avail, unless.
Section 516.280 - Limitation not to be extended by improper acts of defendant.
Section 516.290 - Effect of two or more existing disabilities.
Section 516.300 - Actions otherwise limited.
Section 516.310 - Demands against corporations.
Section 516.320 - Actions barred, only revived by written promise.
Section 516.330 - One joint debtor cannot revive a demand against other debtor.
Section 516.340 - Sections 516.320 and 516.330 construed.
Section 516.360 - Sections 516.010 to 516.370 to apply to the state as well as to private parties.
Section 516.370 - Limitation not to apply to setoffs, when.
Section 516.371 - Limitation on action for sexual contact by certain persons.
Section 516.380 - Actions on penal statutes to be brought in one year.
Section 516.390 - When penalty goes to the state, within two years.
Section 516.400 - When penalty goes to party aggrieved, three years.
Section 516.410 - Sections 516.380 to 516.400 construed.