524.020. Ejectment maintained in particular cases, when. - Missouri Statutes

Ejectment maintained in particular cases, when.

524.020. An action for the recovery of the possession ofland may also be maintained against any person not having abetter title thereto, in all cases where the plaintiff claimspossession thereof under or by virtue of:

(1) An entry or bounty land warrant location with theregister and receiver of any land office of the United States, orwith the commissioner of the general land office thereof; or

(2) An entry with the register and receiver of any landoffice in this state; or

(3) A preemption right, under the laws of the United States,or of this state; or

(4) A New Madrid location; or

(5) A confirmation made under the laws of the United States; or

(6) A land scrip location made in virtue of the laws of thisstate; or

(7) A French or Spanish grant, warrant or order of survey,surveyed by proper authority, under the French or Spanishgovernment, and recorded according to the usages of the countryprior to the tenth of March, 1804.

(RSMo 1939 § 1530)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1366; 1919 § 1816; 1909 § 2383

CROSS REFERENCE:

New Madrid certificates and patents, evidentiary effect, RSMo 446.250, 446.260