When a will gives someone a life estate (the right to use property until they die) and also says the property goes to that person's heirs after they die, those heirs get the property outright as full owners — not through the life tenant's estate, but as direct recipients named by the will.
474.470. abolished, effect. — Where under a a is which is limited to the , or of a person to whom a in the same is devised, the persons who, on the of the life estate, are the heirs, or heirs of the body of the , are entitled to take as , by virtue of the remainder so limited in them.
(RSMo 1939 § 563, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 276)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 562; 1919 § 555; 1909 § 578
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Related Missouri laws
Failure of devise to become part of residue
RSMo 474.465
Exchange of securities not to adeem specific legacy
RSMo 474.463
Devise deemed to convey fee simple, when
RSMo 474.480
Testator surviving devisee, effect
RSMo 474.460
Devisee who does not survive testator by 120 hours treated as predeceasing testator
RSMo 474.455
Encumbrance does not revoke devise
RSMo 474.450
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