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2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXVIII CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS
Chapter 431 General Provisions as to Contracts
Section 431.055 Persons competent to contract when eighteen years of age.
Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 431.055 (2017)
Effective 07 Jan 1975, see footnote
Title XXVIII CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS
Chapter 431431.055. Persons competent to contract when eighteen years of age. — The legal age at which a person becomes competent to contract in Missouri is eighteen years and any rule or provision of the common law to the contrary is hereby abrogated.
(L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 3 § 2)
Effective 1-07-75
CROSS REFERENCE:
Conveyances by minors binding, when, 442.080
(1979) Covenant not to sue is contract within meaning of term “contract” as to 18 years of age as legal age at which person becomes competent to contract. Holoman v. Harris (A.), 585 S.W.2d 530.
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