Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.010. Private seals abolished. — The use of private seals in written contracts, conveyances of real estate, and all other instruments of writing heretofore required by law to be sealed (except the seals of corporations), is hereby abolished, but the addition of a private seal to any such instrument shall […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.020. Instrument of writing to import consideration — due and payable as specified. — All instruments of writing made and signed by any person or his agent, whereby he shall promise to pay to any other, or his order, or unto bearer, any sum of money or property therein mentioned, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.030. Provisions limiting time for bringing suits prohibited. — All parts of any contract or agreement hereafter made or entered into which either directly or indirectly limit or tend to limit the time in which any suit or action may be instituted, shall be null and void. ——– (RSMo 1939 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.040. Fraud in sale of nursery stock — damages recoverable. — Any person, firm or corporation doing business in this state as nurserymen or tree dealers, who shall falsely represent the grade or variety of any fruit trees, vines, shrubs, plants or bulbs which they sell, shall be guilty of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.050. Failure of nurserymen to deliver at proper time and season, contract voidable. — Any nurserymen or tree dealers who shall sell and contract to deliver any fruit trees, vines, shrubs, plants or bulbs for planting, and shall fail to deliver said fruit trees, vines, shrubs, plants or bulbs at […]
Effective – 07 Jan 1975 431.055. Persons competent to contract when eighteen years of age. — The legal age at which a person becomes competent to contract in Missouri is eighteen years and any rule or provision of the common law to the contrary is hereby abrogated. ——– (L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 3 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2020, 4 histories 431.056. Minor’s ability to contract for certain purposes — conditions — immunity from liability, when. — 1. A minor shall be qualified and competent to contract for housing, employment, purchase of an automobile, receipt of a student loan, admission to high school or postsecondary school, obtaining medical and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2014 431.058. Relative caregiver may consent to immunization of child, when — definitions — parental decision supercedes relative caregiver — notice when child stops living with relative caregiver — limitations on liability, when — affidavit requirements. — 1. As used in sections 431.058 to 431.062, the following terms shall mean: (1) […]
Effective – 07 Jan 1975 431.060. Contracts by persons under eighteen years of age — ratification necessary — how made. — No action shall be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any debt contracted before such person becomes eighteen years of age, unless such person shall have ratified the same by some other act […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2014 431.061. Consent to surgical or medical treatment, who may give, when. — 1. In addition to such other persons as may be so authorized and empowered, any one of the following persons if otherwise competent to contract, is authorized and empowered to consent, either orally or otherwise, to any surgical, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2014 431.062. Minor cannot disaffirm contract, when — parents or guardian not liable, exception — disclosure by physician authorized, when. — Whenever a minor is examined, treated, hospitalized, or receives medical or surgical care under subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of section 431.061: (1) His consent shall not be subject to […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1977 431.063. Implied consent, when valid — lack of consent, when excused — emergency defined. — In addition to any other instances in which a lack of consent is excused or in which a consent is implied at law, a consent to surgical or medical treatment or procedures shall be implied […]
Effective – 12 Jun 2006, 2 histories 431.064. Experimental treatment, tests, and drugs, consent to administer by third party — life-threatening emergencies, consent by whom. — 1. When an adult person, because of a medical condition, is treated by a teaching hospital for a medical school accredited by the American Osteopathic Association or the American […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1977 431.065. Minor spouse or parent may give consent, when. — Any minor who has been lawfully married and any minor parent or legal custodian of a child, if otherwise competent to contract, shall be considered an adult for the purpose of entering into a contract for surgical, medical, or other […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1983 431.066. Insurance benefits payable directly to minor, when — validity of receipt — disaffirmance prohibited. — 1. When any minor eighteen years or older, being married, and the beneficiary of a policy of insurance on the life of his spouse becomes entitled to any benefits under the policy of insurance […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1963 431.067. Contracts of minors to borrow money for higher education — validity. — Any minor may execute legally binding promissory notes and may legally contract to borrow money to defray the necessary expenses of attending any accredited university, college or conservatory, and shall have full legal capacity to act in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2006 431.068. Persons seventeen or older may donate blood — written permission required for sixteen-year-olds. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 431.061, any person seventeen years of age or older may donate blood voluntarily without the necessity of obtaining the permission or authorization of his or her parent or guardian. […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1971 431.069. Acquiring human tissues declared to be rendition of a service — transfusions or transplants declared not a sale — implied warranties, how limited. — The procurement, processing, distribution or use of whole blood, plasma, blood products, blood derivatives and other human tissues, including but not limited to corneas, bones, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.070. Contracts with counties, effect. — All notes, bonds, bills, contracts, covenants, agreements or writings made whereby any person shall be bound to any county, or to the inhabitants thereof, or to the governor, or to any other person, in whatever form, for the payment of money or any debt […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 431.080. Suit may be instituted thereon. — Suits may be commenced and prosecuted thereon in the name of such county, or in the name of the person to whom they are made, to the use of the county, as fully and effectually as any person may or can, upon like […]
