2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 442.030. — Conveyance of property of spouse--covenants.

442.030. A husband and wife may convey the real estate of the husband or wife by their joint deed acknowledged and certified as herein provided. Where the property conveyed is owned by the husband and wife as an estate by the entirety, then both shall be bound by the covenants therein expressed or implied.

(RSMo 1939 § 3402, A.L. 2001 H.B. 537)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3015; 1919 § 2175; 1909 § 2788

CROSS REFERENCES: Conveyance by joint deed of husband or wife and guardian of spouse, when authorized, RSMo 451.300 Conveyance subsequent to 1900 and prior to 1933 in which spouse failed to join, action to remove interest barred, when, RSMo 516.065 Homestead, how conveyed, RSMo 513.475

(1956) Where acknowledgment on deed of husband and wife conveying a perpetual easement for right-of-way was fraudulent, the deed was sufficient to convey the easement but insufficient to release inchoate dower. McCoy v. N.W. Electric Power Co-op. (Mo.), 297 S.W.2d 390.