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Effective – 28 Aug 2001

442.030. Conveyance of property of spouse — covenants. — A husband and wife may convey the real estate of the husband or wife by their joint deed acknowledged and certified as herein provided. Where the property conveyed is owned by the husband and wife as an estate by the entirety, then both shall be bound by the covenants therein expressed or implied.

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(RSMo 1939 § 3402, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3015; 1919 § 2175; 1909 § 2788

CROSS REFERENCES:

Conveyance by joint deed of husband or wife and guardian of spouse, when authorized, 451.300

Homestead, how conveyed, 513.475

(1956) Where acknowledgment on deed of husband and wife conveying a perpetual easement for right-of-way was fraudulent, the deed was sufficient to convey the easement but insufficient to release inchoate dower. McCoy v. N.W. Electric Power Co-op. (Mo.), 297 S.W.2d 390.