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Missouri · Through 2026 legislative session (floor)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 411.581: Warranties on negotiation or transfer of receipt.

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  1. Title XXVI - TRADE AND COMMERCE
  2. Chapter 411 - Missouri Grain Warehouse Law

A person who for value negotiates or transfers a receipt by endorsement or delivery, including one who assigns for value a claim secured by a receipt unless a contrary intention appears, warrants:

(1) That the receipt is genuine;

(2) That he has a legal right to negotiate or transfer it;

(3) That he has knowledge of no fact which would impair the validity or worth of the receipt; and

(4) That he has a right to transfer the title to the grain, and that the grain is merchantable or fit for a particular purpose whenever such warranties would have been implied if the contract of the parties had been to transfer the grain without receipts represented thereby.

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