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MO Rev Stat § 441.065 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.065 - Abandonment of rental premises, when, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   441.065. Abandonment of rental premises, when, procedure. — Any property of a tenant remaining in or at the premises, after the tenant abandons the premises, may be removed or disposed of by the landlord without liability to the tenant for such removal or disposition. The premises shall be deemed abandoned if:  (1) The landlord has a reasonable belief that the tenant has vacated the premises and intends not to return;  (2) The rent is due and has been unpaid for thirty days; and  (3) The landlord posts written notice on the premises and mails to the last known address of the tenant by both first class mail and certified mail, return receipt requested, a notice of the landlord's belief of abandonment. The notice shall include the following, where appropriate:  "The rent on this property has been due and unpaid for thirty consecutive days and the landlord believes that you have moved out and abandoned the property. The landlord may declare this property abandoned and remove your possessions from this unit and dispose of them unless you write to the landlord stating that you have not abandoned this unit within ten days of the landlord having both posted this notice on your door and mailing this notice to you. You should mail your statement by regular first class mail and, if you so choose, by certified mail, return receipt requested, to this address ______ (here insert landlord's name and street address)"; and  (4) The tenant fails to either pay rent or respond in writing to the landlord's notice within ten days after both the date of the posting and deposit of such notice by either first class mail or certified mail, return receipt requested, stating the tenant's intention not to abandon the premises. ­­-------- (L. 1997 H.B. 361)
MO Rev Stat § 441.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.070 - No notice necessary, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.070. No notice necessary, when. — No notice to quit shall be necessary from or to a tenant whose term is to end at a certain time, or when, by special agreement, notice is dispensed with. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2972)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2585; 1919 § 6881; 1909 § 7884
MO Rev Stat § 441.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.080 - Liability of tenants after termination of term.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.080. Liability of tenants after termination of term. — If any tenant for life or years, or if any other person, who may come into the possession of any lands or tenements under or by collusion with such tenant, shall willfully hold over the same after the termination of such term, and after demand made and notice in writing given, requiring the possession thereof, by the person entitled thereto, such person so holding over shall pay to the person so kept out of possession double the yearly value of the lands or tenements so detained, for all the time he shall keep the person entitled out of possession. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2966)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2580; 1919 § 6876; 1909 § 7879
MO Rev Stat § 441.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.090 - Recovery action — tenant served with summons — notice — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.090. Recovery action — tenant served with summons — notice — penalty. — Every tenant on whom a summons in an action to recover the tenements held by him shall be served shall forthwith give notice thereof to the person, or the agent of the person, of whom such tenant holds, under the penalty of forfeiting to such person the value of three years' rent of the premises occupied by him. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2963)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2577; 1919 § 6873; 1909 § 7876
MO Rev Stat § 441.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.100 - Tenant giving notice to quit, and failing to do so, liable.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.100. Tenant giving notice to quit, and failing to do so, liable. — If any tenant shall give notice, in writing, of his intention to quit the premises held by him, at a time specified in such notice, and shall not deliver up the possession thereof at such time, such tenant, his executors or administrators shall from thenceforward pay to the landlord, his heirs or assigns, double the rent reserved during all the time such tenant shall so continue in possession. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2964)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2578; 1919 § 6874; 1909 § 7877
MO Rev Stat § 441.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.110 - Such rent, how recovered.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.110. Such rent, how recovered. — Such double rent shall be recovered in the same manner, at the same time, that the single rent is recoverable. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2965)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2579; 1919 § 6875; 1909 § 7878
MO Rev Stat § 441.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.120 - Oral evidence not to show renewal of lease or change — notice to quit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.120. Oral evidence not to show renewal of lease or change — notice to quit. — 1. In all cases where a tenant holds over after the termination of the time for which the premises were let or leased, under a written contract between the lessor or his agent and the tenant or his agent, in any suit for possession by the party entitled to possession of said premises against such tenant, after the termination of the time for which said premises were let or leased under written contract, oral evidence shall not be admissible that said lease or letting was renewed or extended, or that a new contract was entered into or substituted for the written contract, but the tenant's right to continued possession or the landlord's right to collect rent on said premises after the termination thereof, shall be established by contract in writing; provided, however, this section shall not prevent a recovery of damages by either party for breach of the written contract.  2. In all cases of an oral letting or leasing of real property for any agricultural year, tenancy at will or by sufferance, or for less than one year, if either party shall terminate said tenancy in accordance with the provisions of sections 441.050 and 441.060, in any suit thereafter between said parties, oral testimony shall not be admissible to vary, alter or abrogate the effect of the notice required and given under sections 441.050 and 441.060, but such notice may be varied, altered or abrogated only by written evidence thereof and bearing an actual date subsequent to the date of the notice provided for in said sections. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2970)  CROSS REFERENCE:  New tenant may maintain action of unlawful detainer against tenant holding over, when, 534.290  (1953) Evidence showing tenant did additional work on premises with landlord's consent in reliance on new oral lease after expiration of written lease, held inadmissible. Harriman v. Hale (A.), 258 S.W.2d 27.
MO Rev Stat § 441.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.130 - Alienee or assignee may recover rent.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   441.130. Alienee or assignee may recover rent. — If the owner or holder of the lands, tenements, an estate or a lease term alienates or assigns such owner's or holder's lands, tenement, estate or term, or the rent thereafter to fall due on such premises after such alienation or assignment, the owner's or holder's alienee or assignee may recover such rent paid to such owner or holder after such alienation or assignment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2989, A.L. 1997 H.B. 361)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2602; 1919 § 6896; 1909 § 7899
MO Rev Stat § 441.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.140 - Grants of rents good without attornment of tenants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   441.140. Grants of rents good without attornment of tenants. — Grants of rents, or of lands, tenements, estates, lease terms, reversions or remainders pursuant to section 441.130 or section 535.070 shall be good and shall be effective without the consent of the tenants; unless otherwise stated in the lease; but no tenant, who, before notice of the grant, pays the rent to the grantor, shall suffer any damage for such payment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3015, A.L. 1997 H.B. 361)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2625; 1919 § 6922; 1909 § 7925
MO Rev Stat § 441.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.150 - Attornment to stranger void — exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.150. Attornment to stranger void — exceptions. — The attornment of a tenant to a stranger shall be void, and shall not in any wise affect the possession of his landlord, unless it is made:  (1) With the consent of the landlord; or  (2) Pursuant to or in consequence of a judgment at law, or a decree in equity, or sale under execution or deed of trust; or  (3) To a mortgagee, after the mortgage has been forfeited. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2973)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2586; 1919 § 6882; 1909 § 7885
MO Rev Stat § 441.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.160 - Executor or administrator of tenant for life may recover rents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.160. Executor or administrator of tenant for life may recover rents. — The executors or administrators of any tenant for life, who shall have demised any lands or tenements so held, and shall die on or before the day when any rent on such demise shall become payable, may recover:  (1) If such tenant for life die on the day, the whole rent;  (2) If he die before the day, such proportion of the rent as shall have accrued before his death. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2959)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2573; 1919 § 6869; 1909 § 7871  CROSS REFERENCE:  Unlawful detainer action, cause survives on death of lessor, 534.270  (1959) Where life tenant leased farm to tenant for crop rent and died after the crop was planted but before maturity or harvest, the rent did not accrue during life estate so that remaindermen were entitled to the proceeds from sale of crop. In re North's Estate (A.), 320 S.W.2d 597.
MO Rev Stat § 441.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.170 - Remedy of executor or administrator.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.170. Remedy of executor or administrator. — The executors or administrators of any person to whom any rent shall have been due and unpaid at the time of the death of such person may have the same remedy, by action against the tenant, his executors or administrators, for the recovery thereof, that their testator or intestate might have if living. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2962)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2576; 1919 § 6872; 1909 § 7875
MO Rev Stat § 441.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.180 - Rents dependent on life of another, how recovered when unpaid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.180. Rents dependent on life of another, how recovered when unpaid. — Every person entitled to any rents, dependent upon the life of any other, may, notwithstanding the death of such other person, have the same remedy, by action, for the recovery of all arrears of such rents as are due and unpaid at the death of such other person, as he might have if such other person were in full life. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2960)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2574; 1919 § 6870; 1909 § 7872
MO Rev Stat § 441.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.190 - Rent due on lease for life, how recovered.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.190. Rent due on lease for life, how recovered. — Any person having any rent due upon any lease for life may have the same remedy, by action for the recovery thereof, as if such lease were for years. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2961)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2575; 1919 § 6871; 1909 § 7874
MO Rev Stat § 441.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.200 - Landlord may recover for use and occupation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.200. Landlord may recover for use and occupation. — A landlord may recover a reasonable satisfaction for the use and occupation of any lands or tenements held by any person under an agreement not made by deed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2974)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2587; 1919 § 6883; 1909 § 7886
MO Rev Stat § 441.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.210 - If parol demise appear on trial, shall be evidence of what.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.210. If parol demise appear on trial, shall be evidence of what. — If a parol demise, or other agreement not by deed, by which a certain rent is reserved, appear in evidence on the trial of such action, the plaintiff shall not on that account be debarred from a recovery, but may make use thereof as evidence of the amount of damages to be recovered. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2975)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2588; 1919 § 6884; 1909 § 7887
MO Rev Stat § 441.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.220 - Rent may be recovered of whom, and how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.220. Rent may be recovered of whom, and how. — Rent may be recovered from the lessee or person owing it, or his assignee or undertenant, or the representative of either, by the same remedies given in sections 441.240 to 441.280; but no assignee or undertenant shall be liable for rent which became due before his interest began. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2990)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2603; 1919 § 6897; 1909 § 7900
MO Rev Stat § 441.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.230 - If tenant sublet, landlord may join sublessees in same actions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.230. If tenant sublet, landlord may join sublessees in same actions. — In case any tenant shall sublet any premises or any part thereof demised or let to him, the landlord shall have the right, in any action provided for by this chapter and chapter 535, to join as party defendants his lessee and all sublessees in the same action. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2991)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2604; 1919 § 6898; 1909 § 7901
MO Rev Stat § 441.233 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.233 - Landlord's unlawful removal or exclusion of tenant, liability — interruption of services, landlord's liability.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   441.233. Landlord's unlawful removal or exclusion of tenant, liability — interruption of services, landlord's liability. — 1. Except as provided in section 441.065, a landlord or its agent who removes or excludes a tenant or the tenant's personal property from the premises without judicial process and court order, or causes such removal or exclusion, or causes the removal of the doors or locks to such premises, shall be deemed guilty of forcible entry and detainer as described in chapter 534.  2. Any landlord or its agent who willfully diminishes services to a tenant by interrupting or causing the interruption of essential services, including but not limited to electric, gas, water, or sewer service, to the tenant or to the premises shall be deemed guilty of forcible entry and detainer as described in chapter 534; provided however, this section shall not be applicable if a landlord or its agent takes such action for health or safety reasons. ­­-------- (L. 1997 H.B. 361 § 441.223)
MO Rev Stat § 441.234 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.234 - Tenant may deduct cost of repair of rental premises from rent, when — limitations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   441.234. Tenant may deduct cost of repair of rental premises from rent, when — limitations. — 1. The provisions of this section shall apply only to a tenant who has lawfully resided on the rental premises for six consecutive months, has paid all rent and charges due the landlord during that time, and did not during that time receive any written notice from the landlord of any violation of any lease provision or house rule, which violation was not subsequently cured.  2. If there exists a condition on residential premises which detrimentally affects the habitability, sanitation or security of the premises, and the condition constitutes a violation of a local municipal housing or building code, and the reasonable cost to correct the condition is less than three hundred dollars, or one-half of the periodic rent, whichever is greater, provided that the cost may not exceed one month's rent, the tenant may notify the landlord of the tenant's intention to correct the condition at the landlord's expense. If the landlord fails to correct the condition within fourteen days after being notified by the tenant in writing or as promptly as required in case of an emergency, the tenant may cause the work to be done in a workmanlike manner and, after submitting to the landlord an itemized statement, including receipts, deduct from the rent the actual and reasonable cost of the work, as documented by the receipts, not exceeding the amount specified in this subsection; provided, however, if the landlord provides to the tenant within said notice period a written statement disputing the necessity of the repair, then the tenant may not deduct the cost of the repair from the rent without securing, before the repair is performed, a written certification from the local municipality or government entity that the condition requiring repair constitutes a violation of local municipal housing or building code. In the event of such certification, the tenant may cause the work to be done as described herein if the landlord fails to correct the condition within fourteen days after the date of said certification or the date of the notice from the tenant, whichever is later, or as promptly as required in case of an emergency. The tenant's remedy provided herein is not exclusive of any other remedies which may be available to the tenant under the law. No lease agreement shall contain a waiver of the rights described in this section.  3. A tenant may not repair at the landlord's expense if the condition was caused by the deliberate or negligent act or omission of the tenant, a member of the tenant's family, or other person on the premises with tenant's consent. A tenant may not deduct in the aggregate more than the amount of one month's rent during any twelve-month period. ­­-------- (L. 1997 H.B. 361)
MO Rev Stat § 441.236 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.236 - Disclosures required for transfer of property where methamphetamine production occurred.

Effective - 28 Aug 2001, 2 histories   441.236. Disclosures required for transfer of property where methamphetamine production occurred. — In the event that any premises to be rented, leased, sold, transferred or conveyed is or was used as a site for methamphetamine production, the owner, seller, landlord or other transferor shall disclose in writing to the prospective lessee, purchaser or transferee the fact that methamphetamine was produced on the premises, provided that the owner, seller, landlord or other transferor has knowledge of such prior methamphetamine production. The owner shall disclose any prior knowledge of methamphetamine production, regardless of whether the persons involved in the production were convicted for such production. ­­-------- (L. 2001 H.B. 471 and L. 2001 S.B. 89 & 37, A.L. 2011 H.B. 315)
MO Rev Stat § 441.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.240 - Attachment for rent.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   441.240. Attachment for rent. — 1. Any person who shall be liable to pay rent, whether the same be due or not, or whether the same be payable in money or other thing, if the rent be due within one year thereafter, shall be liable to attachment for such rent, in the following instances:  (1) When he intends to remove his property from the leased or rented premises;  (2) When he is removing his property from the leased or rented premises;  (3) When he has, within thirty days, removed his property from the leased or rented premises;  (4) When he shall in any manner dispose of the crop, or any part thereof, grown on the leased or rented premises, so as to endanger, hinder or delay the collection of the rent;  (5) When he shall attempt to dispose of the crop, or any part thereof, grown on the leased or rented premises, so as to endanger, hinder or delay the collection of the rent;  (6) When the rent is due and unpaid, after demand thereof. Provided, if such tenant be absent from such leased premises, demand may be made of the person occupying the same.  2. The person to whom the rent is owing, or his agent, may, before an associate circuit judge or the clerk of a court of record having jurisdiction of actions by attachment in ordinary cases, of the county in which the premises lie, make an affidavit of one or more of the foregoing grounds of attachment, and that he believes unless an attachment issue plaintiff will lose his rent; and upon the filing of such affidavit, together with a statement of plaintiff's cause of action, such officer shall issue an attachment for the rent against the personal property, including the crops grown on the leased premises, but no such attachment shall issue until the plaintiff has given bond, executed by himself or by some responsible person for him, as principal, in double the amount sued for, with good security, to the defendant to indemnify him if it appear that the attachment has been wrongfully obtained; provided, if any person shall buy any crop grown on demised premises upon which any rent is unpaid, and such purchaser has knowledge of the fact that such crop was grown on demised premises, he shall be liable in an action for the value thereof, to any party entitled thereto, or may be subject to garnishment at law in any suit against the tenant for the recovery of the rent. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2986, A.L. 1945 p. 1107)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2599; 1919 § 6893; 1909 § 7896  CROSS REFERENCE:  Attachment, generally, Chap. 521  (1993) Landlord's lien on tenant's crops attach in year crops sprout, rather than in year crops are harvested and sold. Lien for 1989 rent attached to crops planted in 1989 and harvested in 1990. Jenkins v. Missouri Farmers Association, Inc., 851 S.W.2d 542 (Mo. App. W.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 441.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 441 - Landlord and Tenant|Section 441.250 - Proceedings to be same as in suits by attachment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   441.250. Proceedings to be same as in suits by attachment. — Proceedings on all attachments issued under this chapter shall be the same as provided by law in case of suits by attachment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2987)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2600; 1919 § 6894; 1909 § 7897