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Revised Statutes of Missouri

Chapter 516

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 516

Statutes of Limitation

516.010Actions for recovery of lands commenced, when 516.020Right of possession not affected by descent 516.030Disabilities — twenty-one years 516.040Possession of land under color of title, effect 516.050Limitation where person under disability dies 516.070Limitation where equitable title to land emanates from government 516.080When legal title has not emanated from the United States 516.090Statute not to extend to certain lands 516.095Action for breach of covenant restricting land use, barred, when 516.097Tort action against architects, engineers or builders of defective improvement to real property must be brought within ten years of completion of improvement, exceptions 516.098Surveys of land error or omissions — action must be brought when 516.100Period of limitation prescribed 516.103No tolling by filing of administrative actions, certain suits 516.105Actions against health care and mental health providers (medical malpractice)516.110What action shall be commenced within ten years 516.120What actions within five years 516.130What actions within three years 516.140What actions within two years 516.145What actions within one year 516.150No action to foreclose mortgage after note barred 516.155Mortgages last maturing obligation is due, how determined — future advances on real property security instrument statute begins to run, when 516.160In account current, when cause of action accrued 516.170May delay filing of action, when 516.180On death of person under disability, cause of action survives 516.190Limitations on actions originating in other states 516.200If defendant be out of state before or departs after cause of action commences, when action may be commenced 516.210Time not to be computed during a war 516.220Not to apply to what 516.230Further savings in cases of nonsuits 516.240If defendant dies, when and against whom new suit to be brought 516.250Suit abated by death of plaintiff, when — when and by whom new suit brought 516.260Suit stayed by injunction, time not computed 516.270Disability not to avail, unless 516.280Limitation not to be extended by improper acts of defendant 516.290Effect of two or more existing disabilities 516.300Actions otherwise limited 516.310Demands against corporations 516.320Actions barred, only revived by written promise 516.330One joint debtor cannot revive a demand against other debtor 516.340Sections 516.320 and 516.330 construed 516.350Judgments presumed to be paid, when — presumption, how rebutted — inclusion in the automated child support system — judgment for unpaid rent, revived by publication 516.360Sections 516.010 to 516.370 to apply to the state as well as to private parties 516.370Limitation not to apply to setoffs, when 516.371Limitation on action for sexual contact by certain persons 516.380Actions on penal statutes to be brought in one year 516.390When penalty goes to the state, within two years 516.400When penalty goes to party aggrieved, three years 516.410Sections 516.380 to 516.400 construed 516.420When not to apply to corporations 516.500Legislative bills, actions on procedural defect in enactment, time limitations, exceptions