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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 442.550

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Dower: A widow
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • real estate: shall be construed as coextensive in meaning with lands, tenements and hereditaments, and as embracing all chattels real and as including a manufactured home as defined in section 700. See Missouri Laws 442.010

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.