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Statutes > Missouri > T28 > C431 > 431_055Persons competent to contract when eighteen years of age.
431.055. The legal age at which a person becomes competentto contract in Missouri is eighteen years and any rule orprovision of the common law to the contrary is hereby abrogated.
(L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 3 § 2)Effective 1-7-75
CROSS REFERENCE:
Conveyances by minors binding, when, RSMo 442.080
(1979) Covenant not to sue is contract within meaning of term "contract" as to 18 years of age as legal age at which person becomes competent to contract. Holoman v. Harris (A.), 585 S.W.2d 530.
