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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 88.897

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Any and all real property shall be liable for the cost of the improvements contemplated in sections 88.863 to 88.913, as above provided, whether owned by a person, a company, a corporation, a railroad corporation or company, a church, a charitable institution, educational institution, eleemosynary institution, cemetery or cemetery association, or any other institution or association whatever, except real estate owned by the state of Missouri or by any state institution, or by the United States, or by any county, township or city, and the tax bills so issued on any and all property, except those last named and excepted, shall be and constitute a first and prior lien against the property described therein, and second only to the lien of state, county and city taxes, and said lien shall continue for a period of three years after the maturity of each or any of said tax bills, or until the final determination of any legal proceedings to collect the same.