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RSMo 535.060effective 28 Aug 1997

Demand of rent good, when

In plain English

When a landlord asks a tenant for past-due rent or to pay up and leave, that request counts as a valid legal demand as long as it is made after the rent was supposed to be paid or after the right to get the property back started — no matter if the rental agreement was written down or just a spoken deal.

Word-for-word law

535.060. of rent good, when. — Any demand of rent, or rent and possession, by a landlord or the landlord's shall be good within the meaning of this or any other statute of this state, when made at any time after the right to rent and possession or the rent becomes due according to the terms of the agreement, whether by or otherwise.

(RSMo 1939 § 2998, A.L. 1997 H.B. 361)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2611; 1919 § 6905; 1909 § 7908

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