Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.200. Copies from United States land offices. — Copies of any entry or entries, or memoranda, made on the books of the office of any register or receiver of any United States land office, certified by the said register or receiver to be correct, shall be received in evidence in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.210. Copies of letters received by register of land office. — Copies of any letter or letters received by the register or receiver of any land office, as aforesaid, from any superior officer in the land department of the United States, concerning the official action of the said register or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.220. Office records of the United States or sister state. — All records and exemplifications of office books, kept in any public office of the United States, or of a sister state, not appertaining to a court, shall be evidence in this state, if attested by the keeper of said […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.230. Exemplification by President and others. — Exemplifications from the books of the executive department of the United States, or any papers filed therein, shall be evidence when attested by the President or the chief of either of the departments, or from any state or territory, of like books or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1953 490.235. Printed copies of utility tariffs, evidence, when. — Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs of rates, fares and charges, and supplements thereto, filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission or the public service commission, which show respectively an Interstate Commerce Commission number, which may be stated in abbreviated form, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.240. Records of cities and towns. — Printed copies of the ordinances, resolutions, rules, orders and bylaws of any city or incorporated town in this state, purporting to be published by authority of such city or incorporated town, and manuscript or printed copies of such ordinances, resolutions, rules, orders and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1998 490.250. Records of corporations and financial institutions. — 1. Copies of all records and papers on file in the office of any company incorporated under the general or special laws of this state, when certified by the secretary or president, and authenticated by the seal of said company, shall be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.260. Records of religious societies. — When, by the ordinance or custom of any religious society or congregation in this state, a register is required to be kept of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths or interments, such register shall be admitted as evidence. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 1829) Prior revisions: 1929 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.270. Certified copies of religious records. — Copies of the register referred to in section 490.260, certified by the pastor or other head of any such society or congregation, or by the clerk or other keeper of such register, and verified by his affidavit in writing, shall be received in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.280. Instruments under repealed law. — Every instrument of writing conveying or affecting real estate, and the certificate of the acknowledgment or proof thereof, made in pursuance of any law in force at the time of such acknowledgment or proof, but afterward repealed, shall be evidence to the same extent, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.290. Deed acknowledged under former law. — Any deed or conveyance, duly acknowledged or proved and recorded, according to any law in force at the time of taking such acknowledgment or proof, although not declared by such law to be evidence, shall be received in evidence, if it appear to […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.300. Deed, evidence upon proof of certain facts. — Such deed or conveyance, acknowledged or proved and recorded, according to law, though not recorded within one year from the date thereof, or twenty years before it is offered, may be read in evidence, upon proof of such facts and circumstances […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.310. Original deed lost — certified copy of deed, evidence when. — Whenever it shall appear that the original deed or conveyance in any of the cases specified in sections 490.280 to 490.300 has been lost or destroyed, or is not in the power of the party who wishes to […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 490.320. Copy of deed, when evidence. — When any deed or conveyance affecting real estate has been recorded more than twenty years, and has not been proved or acknowledged, according to law, when so recorded, but has been subsequently duly proved, and read upon the trial of any litigated cause […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.330. Evidence offered to reject such copy. — Whenever any deed, conveyance or other evidence of title, or a copy thereof, shall be offered in evidence, under the provisions of any of the preceding sections, and objected to, the party objecting may introduce evidence to show that the original is […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 490.340. Certain recorded instruments to impart notice, when. — All records heretofore or hereafter made by the recorder of any county by copying from any instrument in writing or copy thereof affecting real estate at law or in equity, which instrument or copy is not entitled to be recorded because […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 490.350. Copies of recorded instruments. — Certified copies of such records as are contemplated in section 490.340 shall not be received in evidence until the execution of the original instrument or instruments from which such records are made has been duly proved according to law, except where the record has […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.360. Evidence of execution of real estate instrument. — Whenever the records in the recorder’s office of deeds of any county shall contain a record of any writing, instrument or deed, purporting to affect any real estate, or any right or interest in or to the same, and such real […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.370. Recitals in deeds, evidence of heirship in certain cases. — In any deed conveying real estate heretofore or hereafter made, by any person or persons claiming to be the heir or heirs of some other person, if a recital shall have been or shall be made in said deed, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 490.380. Deeds recorded thirty years before 1874. — All deeds, conveyances, powers of attorney, or other instruments in writing under seal, purporting to convey any land, or any estate or interest therein, or whereby the same may be affected in law or equity, executed and acknowledged in conformity with the […]
