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RSMo 441.050effective 28 Aug 1939

Tenancy from year to year, how terminated

In plain English

If someone rents a place on a year-to-year basis, either the landlord or the renter can end that rental agreement. To do so, they have to give written notice at least 60 days before the end of the rental year.

Word-for-word law

441.050. , how terminated. — Either may terminate a tenancy from year to year by giving notice, in writing, of his intention to terminate the same, not less than sixty days next before the end of the year.

(RSMo 1939 § 2969)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2583; 1919 § 6879; 1909 § 7882

of notice, generally, 1.190

(1957) Fact that held over eleven days after expiration of did not of itself create a new tenancy from year to year, and tenant had no interest in condemned under filed on 12th day. Millhouse v. Drainage Dist. No. 48 of Dunklin Co. (A.), 304 S.W.2d 54.

(1964) reasonably have found that oral agreement between and that plaintiff would get one-third of crops and pay one-third of combining and fertilizing, where no rental was agreed upon and defendant did not even pay rent in cash, no discussion was had as to length of term, defendant furnished his own seed and decided what crops to plant and used his own equipment, did not constitute a tenancy from year to year and therefore defendant was not entitled to sixty days' notice. Smith v. McNew (A.), 381 S.W.2d 369.

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