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Section 442.530 – Value of life estates — how computed.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.530. Value of life estates — how computed. — When a party as tenant for life, or by the curtesy, or in dower, is entitled to the annual interest on a sum of money, or is entitled to the use of any estate, or part thereof, and is willing to […]

Section 442.540 – Rule of calculation.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.540. Rule of calculation. — Calculate the interest at six percent upon the sum to the income of which, or upon the value of the property to the use of which, the person is entitled; multiply this interest by the present value of an annuity of one dollar, as set […]

Section 442.550 – Examples.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.550. Examples. — Suppose a person whose age is forty-two is tenant for life in the whole of an estate worth ten thousand five hundred dollars; the annual interest on that sum at six percent is six hundred and thirty dollars. The present value of an annuity of one dollar […]

Section 442.555 – Rule against perpetuities, application of modified.

Effective – 02 Jan 1979 442.555. Rule against perpetuities, application of modified. — 1. When any limitation or provision violates the rule against perpetuities or a rule or policy corollary thereto and the instrument containing the limitation or provision also contains other limitations or provisions which do not in themselves violate the rule against perpetuities […]

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

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.440. Conveyances to counties for their use — effect. — All deeds, grants and conveyances made, acknowledged and recorded as other deeds conveying lands, tenements or hereditaments to any county, or the inhabitants of any county, and their successors, or to the governor, or any person, by whatever form of […]

Section 442.450 – Conveyance to more than one — effect.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.450. Conveyance to more than one — effect. — Every interest in real estate granted or devised to two or more persons, other than executors and trustees and husband and wife, shall be a tenancy in common, unless expressly declared, in such grant or devise, to be in joint tenancy. […]