Missouri Statutes

§ 434.020 — Assignment not to affect defense.

Missouri § 434.020

JurisdictionMissouri

Title XXVIIICONTRACTS AND CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS

Ch. 434Contracts Against Public Policy

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Bluebook

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 434.020 (2026).

Text

The assignment of any bond, bill, note, judgment, conveyance or other security shall not affect the defense of the person executing or confessing the same.

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Legislative History

(RSMo 1939 § 3395) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3008; 1919 § 5745; 1909 § 6626

Nearby Sections

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§ 434.010

Bonds, notes founded on gaming considerations, void.

§ 434.020

Assignment not to affect defense.

§ 434.030

Money lost at gaming recovered, how,

§ 434.040

Heirs may have the remedy.

§ 434.050

Stakeholder liable.

§ 434.060

Parents may recover minor's gaming losses.

§ 434.080

Interrogatories.

§ 434.090

Action to be commenced in three months.

§ 434.100

Construction contracts holding harmless a person's negligence or wrongdoing are void and contra to public policy, exceptions.

§ 434.300

§ 434.301

Transfer or assignment of rights prohibited — moneys and rights not subject to legal process — pension assignee prohibited from evading prohibitions.

§ 434.302

Contract or agreement void, when — moneys paid to be returned for violation — action to enforce restitution, time limitation.

§ 434.303

Attorney general may bring action, when — recovery procedures.

§ 434.304

Actions under chapter 409 not prohibited.

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