Missouri Revised Statutes

Chapter 469
Disclaimers of Property
Section 469.600

August 28, 2011


Doctrine of worthier title and Rule in Bingham's case abolished, effect of language describing beneficiaries.

469.600. The doctrine of worthier title and the Rule in Bingham's case is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's "heirs", "heirs at law", "next of kin", "distributees", "relatives", or "family", or language of similar import does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.

(L. 2006 S.B. 892)


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