442.080. Conveyances by persons under eighteen years of age binding, when. - Missouri Statutes

Conveyances by persons under eighteen years of age binding, when.

442.080. All deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust and otherinstruments affecting title to real estate hereafter executed byany person under the age of eighteen shall be binding upon suchperson under the age of eighteen unless he shall file a deed orother instrument duly acknowledged in the office of the recorderof deeds where the land is situate, disaffirming the same, withintwo years after the disability of the minority is removed.

(RSMo 1939 § 3446, A. 1949 S.B. 1124, A.L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 2)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3059; 1919 § 2218

Effective 1-7-75

(1960) Where emancipated minor, after misrepresenting his age, entered into a contract to mortgage residence property then purchased, and made a down payment thereon and certain payments on the mortgage, he would not be permitted to recover the payments made on the mortgage and a judgment on a counterclaim making him liable under the mortgage and decreeing foreclosure thereof and directing a general levy to recover the balance of any deficiency was held good on the ground that such expenses were for necessaries. Merrick v. Stephens (A.), 337 S.W.2d 713.