If a renter owes at least one month of rent and has not paid it, and the landlord has the legal right to take the property back for nonpayment, the landlord can go to court to get the rental property returned to them.
535.120. brought, when. — Whenever one month's rent or more is from a , the landlord, if he has a by law to for the nonpayment of such rent, may bring an action to recover the of the .
(RSMo 1939 § 2979, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2592; 1919 § 6886; 1909 § 7889
(1967) This section applied where month-to-month tenants were six months in payment of rent as six months' rent is "a half year's rent", although the period may not total exactly one-half year in number of days. B-W Acceptance v. Benack (A.), 423 S.W.2d 215.
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