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.
535.060. of rent good, when. — Any demand of rent, or rent and , by a landlord or the landlord's shall be good within the meaning of this or any other 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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