Effective - 28 Aug 1994
443.170. Penalty for failing to acknowledge satisfaction and deliver deed of release. — If such personal representative, upon satisfactory proof produced to the personal representative of the payment of such indebtedness to the decedent, does not, within thirty days after request and tender of expenses, deliver to the person owning the property a sufficient deed of release, the personal representative shall personally forfeit to the party aggrieved ten percent of the amount of the security instrument, absolutely, and any other damages such aggrieved party may be able to prove such party has sustained, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3477, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1312)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3090; 1919 § 2249; 1909 § 2854