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Section 446.010 – Decayed corners — surveyed when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.010. Decayed corners — surveyed when. — Any person, his agent or attorney, owning or being interested in any tract of land within this state, any corner or corners of which shall be in a decayed or perishable condition, may require the surveyor of the county to make a survey […]

Section 446.020 – Surveyor’s notes — contents.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.020. Surveyor’s notes — contents. — Such surveyor shall note particularly in his field notes the corner from which he starts the survey and to which he traces the lines, noting the condition of the corner trees, if any, marking particularly every object of note, over or by which the […]

Section 446.030 – Surveyor — duties — fees.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.030. Surveyor — duties — fees. — He shall cause to be planted, by the person requiring such survey, at each corner desired to be established, a stone or post, and shall mark and describe witness trees, if within a reasonable distance, noting in his field notes the course and […]

Section 446.040 – Destroyed corners, how established.

Effective – 28 Aug 1981 446.040. Destroyed corners, how established. — When the corner or corners of any survey shall have been destroyed or obliterated by time or accident, the owner of such survey, or of any other lands, the title of which may be affected by the loss of any such corner, or if […]

Section 446.050 – Attendance of surveyor and witnesses — judge’s duty.

Effective – 02 Jan 1979 446.050. Attendance of surveyor and witnesses — judge’s duty. — Such judge shall, upon application, issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county to cause to come before him, at a place on the land and on a day to be designated in the warrant, the county surveyor and […]

Section 446.060 – Examination of witnesses.

Effective – 02 Jan 1979 446.060. Examination of witnesses. — Such judge shall, on the day appointed, proceed to the place designated, and there, in the presence of the county surveyor, examine the witnesses summoned, and others attending, touching the existence or situation of such destroyed or obliterated corners, or any other matter in relation […]

Section 446.070 – Adjournment.

Effective – 02 Jan 1979 446.070. Adjournment. — Such judge shall have power to adjourn from day to day, when the same may be necessary to the accomplishment of the examination. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 1977, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1813; 1919 § 5500; 1909 § 6443 […]

Section 446.080 – Examination reduced to writing.

Effective – 02 Jan 1979 446.080. Examination reduced to writing. — Such judge shall reduce the examination of the witnesses to writing, which shall be signed and sworn to by the deponents, and, being certified and signed by the judge, shall be by him delivered to the county surveyor. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 1978, A. […]

Section 446.090 – Notice to take depositions, how given.

Effective – 28 Aug 1983 446.090. Notice to take depositions, how given. — The party applying for the establishment of any corner or corners shall give notice, in writing, of the time and place of taking such depositions, to every person or persons who may be the owner of any interest in the lands adjoining […]

Section 446.100 – Evidence of notice.

Effective – 02 Jan 1979 446.100. Evidence of notice. — Satisfactory evidence of such notice shall be required by the judge before he proceeds to take such depositions, which shall appear in his certificate annexed to the depositions. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 1980, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § […]

Section 446.110 – Surveyors to re-mark decayed corners, when.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.110. Surveyors to re-mark decayed corners, when. — The county surveyor shall, if required by the party owning or being interested in such survey make a survey thereof, and cause to be planted a stone or post at each of the decayed or obliterated corners, and shall be governed in […]

Section 446.120 – Plat and certificate of survey.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.120. Plat and certificate of survey. — Such surveyor shall make out a plat and certificate of such survey, noting therein the corners at which he shall have planted stones or posts, the names of the chainmen, markers and others present at the planting of the same, and that the […]

Section 446.130 – Plat and certificate recorded.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.130. Plat and certificate recorded. — He shall record such plat and certificate in a book to be by him kept and provided for that purpose, and shall deliver the original, with any depositions delivered to him, duly certified, to the recorder of the county. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 1983) […]

Section 446.140 – Duty of recorder.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.140. Duty of recorder. — The recorder to whom such plats and certificates and depositions shall be delivered shall record the same in a book to be by him provided and kept for that purpose, and shall deliver the original to him at whose instance the survey was made. ­­——– […]

Section 446.150 – Plats, certificates and depositions in evidence.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.150. Plats, certificates and depositions in evidence. — Plats and certificates of surveys and depositions to establish corners, or certified copies of the record thereof, when the same shall have been made or taken in conformity to the provisions of sections 446.010 to 446.180, may be used and received in […]

Section 446.160 – Examination of witness through interpreter.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.160. Examination of witness through interpreter. — When any witness examined under sections 446.010 to 446.180 cannot clearly understand and speak the English language, his examination shall be made through a competent interpreter, duly sworn correctly to translate into his language to him all questions put to him, and his […]

Section 446.170 – Costs, how paid.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 446.170. Costs, how paid. — All fees and costs attending the proceedings under sections 446.010 to 446.170 shall, in the first instance, be paid by the party on whose application the same shall be had, who may recover from persons who shall use or be benefitted by the same their […]

Section 446.180 – Erroneous descriptions in patents — correction.

Effective – 28 Aug 1983 446.180. Erroneous descriptions in patents — correction. — 1. Whenever an error has been made in the description of land in any patent, the person to whom such patent was issued, or any person who has acquired title to the land intended to be described in such erroneous patent by […]