Missouri Statutes

§ 516.400 — When penalty goes to party aggrieved, three years.

Missouri § 516.400

JurisdictionMissouri

Title XXXVCIVIL PROCEDURE AND LIMITATIONS

Ch. 516Statutes of Limitation

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Bluebook

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.400 (2026).

Text

All actions upon any statute for any penalty or forfeiture, given in whole or in part to the party aggrieved, shall be commenced within three years after the commission of the offense, and not after.

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Legislative History

(RSMo 1939 § 3788) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3398; 1919 § 3743; 1909 § 4951

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Actions for recovery of lands commenced, when.

§ 516.020

Right of possession not affected by descent.

§ 516.030

Disabilities — twenty-one years.

§ 516.040

Possession of land under color of title, effect.

§ 516.050

Limitation where person under disability dies.

§ 516.070

Limitation where equitable title to land emanates from government.

§ 516.080

When legal title has not emanated from the United States.

§ 516.090

Statute not to extend to certain lands.

§ 516.095

Action for breach of covenant restricting land use, barred, when.

§ 516.097

Tort action against architects, engineers or builders of defective improvement to real property must be brought within ten years of completion of improvement, exceptions.

§ 516.098

Surveys of land error or omissions — action must be brought when.

§ 516.100

Period of limitation prescribed.

§ 516.103

No tolling by filing of administrative actions, certain suits.

§ 516.105

Actions against health care and mental health providers (medical malpractice).

§ 516.110

What action shall be commenced within ten years.

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