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§ 431.030 — Provisions limiting time for bringing suits prohibited.

Missouri § 431.030
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XXVIIICONTRACTS AND CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS
Ch. 431General Provisions as to Contracts

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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 431.030 (2026).

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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.

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Legislative History

(RSMo 1939 § 3351) Prior revisions: 1929 § 2964; 1919 § 2166; 1909 § 2780 Parties may reduce time for suit from four years to not less than one year by agreement, 400.2-725 (1965) This section includes insurance policies. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Norris Grain Co., 343 F.2d 670.

Nearby Sections

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§ 431.010
Private seals abolished.
§ 431.020
Instrument of writing to import consideration — due and payable as specified.
§ 431.030
Provisions limiting time for bringing suits prohibited.
§ 431.040
Fraud in sale of nursery stock — damages recoverable.
§ 431.050
Failure of nurserymen to deliver at proper time and season, contract voidable.
§ 431.055
Persons competent to contract when eighteen years of age.
§ 431.056
Minor's ability to contract for certain purposes — conditions — immunity from liability, when.
§ 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.
§ 431.060
Contracts by persons under eighteen years of age — ratification necessary — how made.
§ 431.061
Consent to surgical or medical treatment, who may give, when.
§ 431.062
Minor cannot disaffirm contract, when — parents or guardian not liable, exception — disclosure by physician authorized, when.
§ 431.063
Implied consent, when valid — lack of consent, when excused — emergency defined.
§ 431.064
Experimental treatment, tests, and drugs, consent to administer by third party — life-threatening emergencies, consent by whom.
§ 431.065
Minor spouse or parent may give consent, when.
§ 431.066
Insurance benefits payable directly to minor, when — validity of receipt — disaffirmance prohibited.
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