Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.140. Execution of deeds in foreign language — translation — recording. — 1. All deeds, mortgages or other instruments of writing conveying or affecting real estate, and all proofs and acknowledgments of the same executed in a foreign country, and in accordance with the laws of this state, may be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2020 442.145. Personal appearance, acknowledgement by communication technology. — 1. For the purposes of sections 442.150 to 442.360, a person may personally appear before the officer taking the acknowledgment by: (1) Being in the same physical location as another person and close enough to see, hear, communicate with, and exchange tangible […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 442.150. Proof or acknowledgment, by whom taken. — The proof or acknowledgment of every conveyance or instrument in writing affecting real estate in law or equity, including deeds of married women, shall be taken by some one of the following courts or officers: (1) If acknowledged or proved within this […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1951 442.155. Acknowledgment of instruments not affecting lands — certificate — curative provision. — 1. All officers within or without the state of Missouri now by the laws of this state authorized to take the proof or acknowledgment of any conveyance or other instrument in writing affecting real estate, shall have […]
Effective – 12 Jun 1991 442.160. Acknowledgments of instruments by persons in military service — form — instruments previously acknowledged validated, when. — 1. Any commissioned officer, other than a commissioned warrant officer, of any of the Armed Forces of the United States, whether or not on active duty, may take proof or acknowledgment of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.180. Certificate to be endorsed on conveyance. — Every court or officer taking the proof or acknowledgment of any conveyance or instrument of writing affecting real estate, or the relinquishment of the dower of a married woman, shall grant a certificate thereof, and cause the same to be endorsed on […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.190. Certificate, how made. — Such certificate shall be (1) When granted by a court, under the seal of the court; (2) When granted by the clerk of the court, under the hand of the clerk and seal of the court of which he is clerk; (3) When granted by […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.200. Identity of persons making acknowledgments, how ascertained. — No acknowledgment of any instrument in writing conveying real estate, or whereby any real estate may be affected, shall be taken, unless the persons offering to make such acknowledgment shall be personally known to at least one judge of the court, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.210. Certificate of acknowledgment — contents. — 1. The certificate of acknowledgment shall state the act of acknowledgment, and that the person making the same was personally known to at least one judge of the court, or to the officer granting the certificate, to be the person whose name is […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.220. Conveyances of bounty lands, how acknowledged. — Every instrument of writing executed out of this state, and within the United States, which conveys or affects military bounty lands in this state, and which is acknowledged or proved according to the laws and usages of the place where executed, shall […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.230. Such instrument valid. — Every such instrument thus acknowledged or proved shall be as effectual and valid as if such acknowledgment or proof had been made in accordance with the laws of this state. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 3442) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3055; 1919 § 2214; 1909 § […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.240. Such instrument, filed for record, to impart notice. — Every such instrument which has been filed for record or recorded in the proper office, although such filing or recording may not have been in accordance with any law in force, shall hereafter impart the same notice as if the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.250. Copies to be read in evidence. — Copies of such instruments or of the record of the same, duly certified by the recorder of the county in which the same may have been recorded, shall, upon proof of the loss or destruction of the original instrument, be read in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.260. Proof of execution of instruments. — The proof of the execution of any instrument in writing, conveying real estate, or whereby any real estate may be affected in law or equity, shall be: (1) By the testimony of a subscribing witness; or (2) When all the subscribing witnesses are […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.270. When proof of subscribing witness shall be taken. — No proof by a subscribing witness shall be taken, unless such witness shall be personally known to at least one judge of the court, or to the officer taking the proof, to be the person whose name is subscribed to […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.280. What subscribing witness shall prove before certificate shall be granted. — No certificate of such proof shall be granted, unless such subscribing witness shall prove that the person whose name is subscribed thereto as a party is the person who executed the same; that such person executed the instrument, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.290. What facts certificate of proof shall set forth. — The certificate of such proof shall set forth the following matters: (1) The fact that such subscribing witness was personally known to at least one judge of the court, or to the officer granting the certificate, to be the person […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.300. Proof, when grantor and witnesses are dead. — No proof, by evidence of the handwriting of the party and of a subscribing witness, shall be taken, unless the court or officer taking the same shall be satisfied that all the subscribing witnesses to such instrument are dead or cannot […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.310. Certificate of proof, when granted. — No certificate of any such proof shall be granted, unless at least two credible witnesses shall state, on oath or affirmation, that they personally knew the person whose name is subscribed thereto as a party, well know his signature, stating their means of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 442.320. Certificate to recite evidence required by section 442.310. — The certificate of such proof shall set forth the names of the witnesses examined, and their places of residence, the fact that such witnesses were sworn, and the evidence required by section 442.310 to be by them given. ——– (RSMo […]
