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Revised Statutes of Missouri

Chapter 442

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 442

Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate

442.010Definitions 442.012Solar energy is a property right — eminent domain not permitted — easement requirements 442.014Private landowner protection act — definitions — conservation easement permitted, when, validity — applicability 442.015Conveyance or encumbrance of manufactured homes, requirements — affidavit of affixation — deemed real estate, when — detachment or severance from real estate, effect of 442.018(Repealed L. 2018 S.B. 975 & 1024 Revision)Repealed 442.020Conveyances of lands 442.025Conveyance to self and others to create joint estate 442.030Conveyance of property of spouse — covenants 442.035Conveyance of estates by the entireties by minors or disabled persons, conservator's powers and duties 442.040Person under eighteen years of age may join in conveyance with adult spouse 442.050(Repealed L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision § A)Repealed 442.055Contamination of premises, radioactive or hazardous material — disclosure to prospective lessees, purchasers, or transferees — penalty 442.060Private or public corporations may convey real estate 442.070Person may convey, notwithstanding adverse possession 442.080Conveyances by persons under eighteen years of age binding, when 442.090Conveyances by minor veterans valid when necessary to obtain advantage of federal law 442.095Sections 442.090 to 442.120 applicable to whom 442.100Disability of minority removed to enable veterans to acquire or convey property 442.110Honorable discharge of veteran, evidence necessary 442.120Loans to underage servicemen authorized 442.130Execution of deeds and other conveyances — marital status of grantor required on written instruments 442.135Descriptions of subdivided property, contents 442.140Execution of deeds in foreign language — translation — recording 442.145Personal appearance, acknowledgement by communication technology 442.150Proof or acknowledgment, by whom taken 442.155Acknowledgment of instruments not affecting lands — certificate — curative provision 442.170(Repealed L. 1951 p. 749 § 1)Repealed 442.180Certificate to be endorsed on conveyance 442.190Certificate, how made 442.200Identity of persons making acknowledgments, how ascertained 442.210Certificate of acknowledgment — contents 442.220Conveyances of bounty lands, how acknowledged 442.230Such instrument valid 442.240Such instrument, filed for record, to impart notice 442.250Copies to be read in evidence 442.260Proof of execution of instruments 442.270When proof of subscribing witness shall be taken 442.280What subscribing witness shall prove before certificate shall be granted 442.290What facts certificate of proof shall set forth 442.300Proof, when grantor and witnesses are dead 442.310Certificate of proof, when granted 442.320Certificate to recite evidence required by section 442.310 442.330Subscribing witnesses, when and how summoned to prove execution of instrument 442.340Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer 442.350Provisions relating to acknowledgment or proof not to extend to last wills and testaments 442.360Powers of attorney, how acknowledged and proved 442.370When deemed revoked 442.380Instruments to be recorded 442.390Notice imparted from time of filing for record 442.400Not valid until recorded 442.404Political signs, homeowners' associations not to prohibit — reasonable restrictions and removal permitted, when — solar panels and sale signs not to be prohibited or restricted, exceptions — owning or pasturing chickens 442.410Deeds to be recorded, where record lost — fees 442.420"Grant, bargain and sell", how construed 442.430Title acquired by grantor after conveyance inures to grantee 442.440Conveyances to counties for their use — effect 442.450Conveyance to more than one — effect 442.460The term "heirs" not necessary to convey a fee simple estate 442.470Entails not allowed — the remainder in fee simple — to whom it shall pass 442.480Remainder to take effect on death of person without heirs — how construed 442.490Remainder limited to heirs of a person having a life estate — how disposed of 442.500Lineal and collateral warranties abolished 442.510An estate limited in remainder to the son or daughter of any person to be begotten, how disposed of 442.520A future estate, on the death of any person without heirs, how defeated 442.530Value of life estates — how computed 442.540Rule of calculation 442.550Examples 442.555Rule against perpetuities, application of modified 442.557General power of appointment exercisable at death of donee, perpetuities period to run from death of donee 442.558Transfer fee covenants not to run with title to real property — lien void, when 442.560Aliens and corporations of foreign countries may acquire, hold and alienate real estate — exception 442.566Definitions 442.570(Repealed L. 1965 p. 632)Repealed 442.571Aliens or foreign business, limitations on owning agricultural land — violation — acquisitions submitted to department, when — rulemaking authority 442.576Duties of director of agriculture and attorney general — court to order divestiture — when to be accomplished — failure 442.580(Repealed L. 1965 p. 632)Repealed 442.581Lease deemed to be ownership, when 442.586Lands owned by resident aliens — cessation of residence — failure to divest, effect 442.590(Repealed L. 1965 p. 632)Repealed 442.591Exceptions 442.592Report required — content — failure to file, civil penalty, venue — foreign person, defined — rules, procedure 442.600Psychologically impacted real property, defined — disclosure to buyer not mandatory — no cause of action for failure to disclose 442.605(Repealed L. 1996 S.B. 664 § A)Repealed 442.606Methamphetamine production, seller of property to disclose to buyer such production and certain criminal convictions 442.610(Repealed L. 1996 S.B. 664 § A)Repealed 442.615(Repealed L. 1996 S.B. 664 § A)Repealed