Missouri Statutes
§ 513.300 — Officer not to purchase property — purchases void.
Missouri § 513.300
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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 513.300 (2026).
Text
No officer to whom any execution shall be directed, or any of his deputies, or any person for them, shall purchase any goods or chattels, real estate or other effects, or bid at any sale made by virtue of such execution, and all purchases so made shall be void.
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Legislative History
(RSMo 1939 § 1370)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1206; 1919 § 1657; 1909 § 2226
(1973) Where sheriff and his son were denominated on deed as "joint tenants with right of survivorship", the sheriff was in fact a purchaser at his own sale and this rendered the prohibited transaction void. Watkins v. Floyd (A.), 492 S.W.2d 865.
Nearby Sections
15
§ 513.010
Levy and real estate defined.§ 513.015
Executions, who may have.§ 513.020
Executions may issue, when.§ 513.025
General execution, form.§ 513.030
Executions, when returnable.Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
Bluebook (online)
Missouri § 513.300, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/mo/513/513.300.