1. A corporation may contract and incur liabilities appropriate to accomplish its purposes.

2. It may borrow money for its corporate purposes at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 238.327

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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

3. It may issue bonds, notes and other obligations, and may secure any of such obligations by mortgage, pledge, or deed of trust of any or all of the property and income of the corporation, subject to the restrictions provided in sections 238.300 to 238.360. The corporation shall not mortgage, pledge or give a deed of trust on any real property or interests which it obtained by eminent domain or acquired from the state of Missouri or any agency or political subdivision thereof.