RSMo 474.100effective 28 Aug 1955

Alienage no bar to descent

In plain English

When someone inherits property, it does not matter if any family member in their family line was or is a foreigner. Being from another country does not block a person from inheriting.

Word-for-word law

474.100. no bar to . — In making by descent, it is no bar to a that any ancestor through whom he derives his descent from the is or has been an .

(RSMo 1939 § 313, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 245)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 313; 1919 § 310; 1909 § 339

Alien may acquire by descent or , 442.560

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