Executor or administrator of tenant for life may recover rents
When a person rents out land that they only have the right to use for their lifetime, and they die before the rent is due, their estate can still collect some of that rent. If they die on the exact day rent was due, the estate gets all of it. If they die before that day, the estate gets only the share of rent that built up before they died.
441.160. or of may recover rents. — The or of any tenant for life, who shall have any so held, and shall die on or before the day when any rent on such shall become payable, may recover:
(1) If such tenant for life die on the day, the whole rent;
(2) If he die before the day, such proportion of the rent as shall have before his death.
(RSMo 1939 § 2959)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2573; 1919 § 6869; 1909 § 7871
detainer , cause survives on death of , 534.270
(1959) Where leased farm to for crop rent and died after the crop was planted but before maturity or harvest, the rent did not during so that remaindermen were entitled to the from sale of crop. In re North's (A.), 320 S.W.2d 597.
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