2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 535.120. — Action brought, when.

535.120. Whenever a half year's rent or more is in arrear from a tenant, the landlord, if he has a subsisting right by law to reenter for the nonpayment of such rent, may bring an action to recover the possession of the demised premises.

(RSMo 1939 § 2979)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2592; 1919 § 6886; 1909 § 7889

(1967) This section applied where month-to-month tenants were six consecutive months in arrears in payment of rent as six months' rent is "a half year's rent", although the period may not total exactly one-half year in number of days. B-W Acceptance Corporation v. Benack (A.), 423 S.W.2d 215.