Missouri Statutes
§ 474.470 — Rule in Shelley's case abolished, effect.
Missouri § 474.470
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XXXITRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Ch. 474Probate Code — Intestate Succession and Wills
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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.470 (2026).
Text
Where under a will a remainder is devised which is limited to the heirs, or heirs of the body of a person to whom a life estate in the same premises is devised, the persons who, on the termination of the life estate, are the heirs, or heirs of the body of the life tenant, are entitled to take as purchasers in fee simple, by virtue of the remainder so limited in them.
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Legislative History
(RSMo 1939 § 563, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 276)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 562; 1919 § 555; 1909 § 578
Nearby Sections
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§ 474.010
General rules of descent.§ 474.030
Partial intestacy.§ 474.050
Posthumous children to inherit.§ 474.070
Legitimation by marriage.§ 474.100
Alienage no bar to descent.§ 474.110
Curtesy and dower abolished.Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
Bluebook (online)
Missouri § 474.470, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/mo/474/474.470.