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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.050 (2026)

Limitation where person under disability dies

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  516.050.  Limitation where person under disability dies. — If any person entitled to commence such action or to make such entry die during the continuance of any disability specified in section 516.030 and no determination or judgment be had of the title, right or action to him accrued, his heirs, or any person claiming from, by or under him, may commence such action or make such entry after the time in sections 516.010 to 516.090 limited for that purpose, and within three years after his death, but not after that period.

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(RSMo 1939 § 1007)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 855; 1919 § 1310; 1909 § 1883

(1976) Held, running of twenty-four years under § 516.030 during the life of grantor barred heirs from exercising three-year extension under § 516.050. Pemberton v. Reed (A.), 545 S.W.2d 698.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1976–1978 · leading case: Pemberton v. Reed, 545 S.W.2d 698 (Mo. Ct. App. 1976).
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Pemberton v. Reed, 545 S.W.2d 698 (Mo. Ct. App. 1976). · cites it 11× “The defendants Reed moved dismissal on the grounds that the plaintiffs Pemberton were barred by the limitations of § 516.050, RSMo 1969. The motion was sustained by the trial court and the plaintiffs Pemberton appeal the dismissal of their petition.”
Fiandaca v. Niehaus, 570 S.W.2d 714 (Mo. Ct. App. 1978). “We think it more reasonable that it was intended that similar treatment be afforded to succeeding interests in both real actions and personal actions and that Sections 516.050 and 516.180 are essentially parallel provisions.”
Holland v. Duckworth, 539 S.W.2d 326 (Mo. Ct. App. 1976). · cites it 2× “” The direct descendant of the foregoing provision is § 516.050, RSMo 1969, which continues to make it clear that a special limitation (now three years) applies only to the representatives of persons to whom a real action accrued while under a disability (see § 516.”
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