If someone has a legal claim to land or property, that claim does not go away or get weakened just because the person who was living on or holding that property died and it passed down to heirs.
516.020. Right of not affected by . — The right of any person to the possession of any lands, or shall not be impaired or affected by descent, cast in consequence of the death of any person in possession of any such .
(RSMo 1939 § 1003)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 851; 1919 § 1306; 1909 § 1880
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