474.130. When any deed, conveyance, assurance, agreement or contract in lieu of the inheritance or other statutory rights of a spouse, through any default, fails to be a legal bar to such rights and the surviving spouse demands his inheritance and statutory rights, then the estate and interest so conveyed to the surviving spouse ceases and determines.
(RSMo 1939 § 336, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 249)Prior revisions: 1929 § 336; 1919 § 332; 1909 § 364