{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-442.550","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 442.550","heading":"Examples.","body":"Suppose a person whose age is forty-two is tenant for life in the whole of an estate worth ten thousand five hundred dollars; the annual interest on that sum at six percent is six hundred and thirty dollars. The present value of an annuity of one dollar at the age of forty-two, as appears by the table, is eleven dollars and seventy-seven cents and nine mills, which multiplied by six hundred and thirty dollars, gives seven thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-seven cents as the gross value of such life estate in the premises, or the proceeds thereof. Again suppose a widow whose age is thirty-six is entitled to dower in real estate worth twelve thousand dollars; interest on four thousand dollars, the third part thereof, for one year, is two hundred and forty dollars, which, multiplied by twelve dollars and forty-six cents and five mills, the present value of annuity of one dollar at the age of thirty-six, as appears by the table, gives two thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty cents, as the gross value of such dower.","path":["Title XXIX - OWNERSHIP AND CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY","Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=442.550","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:28Z","sha256":"7cf1293779a18ac316853d38977e03481bb3fdaffe454adb52b4abf6a1114f3c","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-442.540","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-442.555"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}