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MO Rev Stat § 442.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.300 - Proof, when grantor and witnesses are dead.

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 be had to prove the execution thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3421)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3034; 1919 § 2193; 1909 § 2804
MO Rev Stat § 442.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.310 - Certificate of proof, when granted.

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 knowledge, and believe the name of the person subscribed thereto as a party was subscribed by such person; nor unless at least two credible witnesses shall, in like manner, state that they personally knew the person whose name is subscribed in such instrument as a witness, well knew his signature, stating their means of knowledge, and believe the name subscribed thereto as a witness was thereto subscribed by such person. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3422)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3035; 1919 § 2194; 1909 § 2805
MO Rev Stat § 442.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.320 - Certificate to recite evidence required by section 442.310.

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 1939 § 3423)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3036; 1919 § 2195; 1909 § 2806
MO Rev Stat § 442.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.330 - Subscribing witnesses, when and how summoned to prove execution of instrument.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.330. Subscribing witnesses, when and how summoned to prove execution of instrument. — Upon the application of any grantee in any instrument in writing required to be recorded or of any person claiming under such grantee, verified by the oath of the applicant, that any witness to such instrument residing in the county where such application is made refuses to appear and testify touching the execution thereof, and that such instrument cannot be proved without his evidence, any court or officer authorized to take the acknowledgment or proof of such instrument may issue a subpoena requiring such witness to appear before such court or officer and testify touching the execution thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3424)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3037; 1919 § 2196; 1909 § 2807
MO Rev Stat § 442.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.340 - Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.340. Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer. — Every person who, being served with such subpoena, shall, without reasonable cause, refuse or neglect to appear or, appearing, shall refuse to answer, upon oath, touching the matters aforesaid, shall forfeit to the party injured one hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action, and may also be committed to prison by the officer who issued such subpoena, there to remain without bail until he shall submit to answer, upon oath, as aforesaid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3425)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3038; 1919 § 2197; 1909 § 2808
MO Rev Stat § 442.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.350 - Provisions relating to acknowledgment or proof not to extend to last wills and testaments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.350. Provisions relating to acknowledgment or proof not to extend to last wills and testaments. — None of the foregoing provisions in relation to the acknowledgment, proof or recording of instruments in writing, affecting real estate, shall be construed as extending to last wills and testaments. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3440)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3053; 1919 § 2212; 1909 § 2823
MO Rev Stat § 442.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.360 - Powers of attorney, how acknowledged and proved.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.360. Powers of attorney, how acknowledged and proved. — Every letter of attorney or other instrument containing a power to convey real estate, as agent or attorney for the owner thereof, or to execute, as agent or attorney for another, any instrument in writing conveying real estate, or whereby real estate may be affected in law or equity, shall be acknowledged or proved, and certified and recorded, as other instruments in writing conveying or affecting real estate are required to be acknowledged or proved and certified and recorded. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3433)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3046; 1919 § 2205; 1909 § 2816  CROSS REFERENCE:  Letters of attorney other than for the conveyance of real estate--how acknowledged and proved--read in evidence, when, 490.570
MO Rev Stat § 442.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.370 - When deemed revoked.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.370. When deemed revoked. — No such letter of attorney, or other instrument, certified and recorded in the manner prescribed in the preceding section, shall be deemed to be revoked by any act of the party by whom it was executed, until the instrument containing such revocation shall be deposited for record in the same office in which the instrument containing the power is recorded. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3434)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3047; 1919 § 2206; 1909 § 2817
MO Rev Stat § 442.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.380 - Instruments to be recorded.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.380. Instruments to be recorded. — Every instrument in writing that conveys any real estate, or whereby any real estate may be affected, in law or equity, proved or acknowledged and certified in the manner herein prescribed, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which such real estate is situated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3426)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3039; 1919 § 2198; 1909 § 2809  CROSS REFERENCES:  Deed acknowledged and recorded under former law or copy, admissible in evidence, when, 490.290, 490.300, 490.310  Deed recorded before proof or acknowledgment, admissible in evidence, when, 490.320, 490.330  Idem sonans in names in instruments affecting real estate, rule as to admissibility, 490.450  Index of recorded instruments to be kept, 59.470  Instruments affecting real estate or copy read in evidence, when, 490.410, 490.420  Judgment or decree quieting or passing title to be recorded, 511.320  Recording of instruments in class one counties where recorder is required to maintain offices both at the county seat and another place in the county, 59.163  (2004) Special tax bill and resulting lien authorized by section 88.812 are not subject to recording requirement of section or to "first in time, first in right" rule of perfecting a security interest. Golden Delta Enterprises v. City of Arnold, 151 S.W.3d 119 (Mo.App.E.D.).  (2012) Application of recording statutes and the "first spade rule"for mechanic's liens in section 429.060 provide that a purchase-money deed of trust recorded after the commencement of work on a project is inferior to any mechanic's liens arising on the land from that work. Bob DeGeorge Associates v. Hawthorn Bank, 377 S.W.3d 592 (Mo.banc).
MO Rev Stat § 442.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.390 - Notice imparted from time of filing for record.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.390. Notice imparted from time of filing for record. — Every such instrument in writing, certified and recorded in the manner herein prescribed, shall, from time of filing the same with the recorder for record, impart notice to all persons of the contents thereof and all subsequent purchasers and mortgagees shall be deemed, in law and equity, to purchase with notice. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3427)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3040; 1919 § 2199; 1909 § 2810  CROSS REFERENCE:  Instruments recorded, though not properly certified, to impart notice, when, 490.340  (1953) While recorded sheriff's deed reciting consideration gives remote purchasers constructive notice thereof, it is not sufficient in itself to constitute notice that such consideration is inadequate. Shaeffer v. Moore (Mo.), 262 S.W.2d 854. (1959) Facts of which purchaser of property is charged with knowledge from record of title discussed. Jackson v. Klein (Mo.), 320 S.W.2d 553. (1964) Although recording of deed does not in itself operate as delivery of deed, it does create presumption or prima facie case of delivery and where plaintiff waited almost 12 years after knowledge of recordation and seven years after death of wife who joined in the deed and was an important factual witness, to bring suit to set aside deed for lack of delivery, suit was barred by laches. Rebmann v. Rebmann (Mo.), 384 S.W.2d 663. (2004) Special tax bill and resulting lien authorized by section 88.812 are not subject to recording requirement of section or to "first in time, first in right" rule of perfecting a security interest. Golden Delta Enterprises v. City of Arnold, 151 S.W.3d 119 (Mo.App.E.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 442.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.400 - Not valid until recorded.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.400. Not valid until recorded. — No such instrument in writing shall be valid, except between the parties thereto, and such as have actual notice thereof, until the same shall be deposited with the recorder for record. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3428)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3041; 1919 § 2200; 1909 § 2811  (2004) Special tax bill and resulting lien authorized by section 88.812 are not subject to recording requirement of section or to "first in time, first in right" rule of perfecting a security interest. Golden Delta Enterprises v. City of Arnold, 151 S.W.3d 119 (Mo.App.E.D.).  (2012) Application of recording statutes and the "first spade rule"for mechanic's liens in section 429.060 provide that a purchase-money deed of trust recorded after the commencement of work on a project is inferior to any mechanic's liens arising on the land from that work. Bob DeGeorge Associates v. Hawthorn Bank, 377 S.W.3d 592 (Mo.banc).
MO Rev Stat § 442.403 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.403 - Restrictive covenants relating to discrimination invalid — effect — no liability by existence of covenant in document filed by specific date.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   442.403. Restrictive covenants relating to discrimination invalid — effect — no liability by existence of covenant in document filed by specific date. — 1. Any restrictive covenant recitals on property, real or personal, found in any deeds, plats, restrictions, covenants, or other conveyances of any type or nature, filed for record at any time in the office of the recorder of deeds in any county, which relate to the race, color, religion, or national origin of any person, shall be void and unenforceable, and shall be ignored, as if the same never existed.  2. Any person or legal entity with an interest in real property or any agent of such person or entity, shall not incur any liability by reason of the mere existence of a restrictive covenant described in subsection 1 of this section in any document filed for record before May 3, 1948, in any recorder of deeds' office. ­­-------- (L. 1993 H.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 442.404 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.404 - Political signs, homeowners' associations not to prohibit — reasonable restrictions and removal permitted, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018   442.404. Political signs, homeowners' associations not to prohibit — reasonable restrictions and removal permitted, when. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:  (1) "Homeowners' association", a nonprofit corporation or unincorporated association of homeowners created under a declaration to own and operate portions of a planned community or other residential subdivision that has the power under the declaration to assess association members to pay the costs and expenses incurred in the performance of the association's obligations under the declaration or tenants-in-common with respect to the ownership of common ground or amenities of a planned community or other residential subdivision. This term shall not include a condominium unit owners' association as defined and provided for in subdivision (3) of section 448.1-103 or a residential cooperative;  (2) "Political signs", any fixed, ground-mounted display in support of or in opposition to a person seeking elected office or a ballot measure excluding any materials that may be attached.  2. No deed restrictions, covenants, or similar binding agreements running with the land shall prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the display of political signs.  3. A homeowners' association has the authority to adopt reasonable rules, subject to any applicable statutes or ordinances, regarding the time, size, place, number, and manner of display of political signs.  4. A homeowners' association may remove a political sign without liability if such sign is placed within the common ground, threatens the public health or safety, violates an applicable statute or ordinance, is accompanied by sound or music, or if any other materials are attached to the political sign. Subject to the foregoing, a homeowners' association shall not remove a political sign from the property of a homeowner or impose any fine or penalty upon the homeowner unless it has given such homeowner three days after providing written notice to the homeowner, which notice shall specifically identify the rule and the nature of the violation. ­­-------- (L. 2018 H.B. 1887)
MO Rev Stat § 442.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.410 - Deeds to be recorded, where record lost — fees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.410. Deeds to be recorded, where record lost — fees. — And in case any person or persons may have any deed or deeds or other instrument of writing, the record of which is lost or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds, upon the request of such person or persons, to record such deed or deeds or other instrument of writing, together with all certificates and endorsements thereon, or thereto attached, and forming a part thereof; provided, such recorder shall receive the same fees for recording such deed, decree or other instrument of writing as is now provided by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1695)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1531; 1919 § 1981; 1909 § 2545
MO Rev Stat § 442.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.420 - "Grant, bargain and sell", how construed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.420. "Grant, bargain and sell", how construed. — The words "grant, bargain and sell", in all conveyances in which any estate of inheritance in fee simple is limited, shall, unless restrained by expressed terms contained in such conveyances, be construed to be the following expressed covenants on the part of the grantor, for himself and his heirs to the grantee, his heirs and assigns:  (1) That the grantor was, at the time of the execution of such conveyance, seized of an indefeasible estate, in fee simple, in the real estate thereby granted;  (2) That such real estate was, at the time of the execution of such conveyance, free from encumbrances done or suffered by the grantor or any person under whom he claims;  (3) For further assurances of such real estate to be made by the grantor and his heirs to the grantee and his heirs and assigns; and may be sued upon in the same manner as if such covenants were expressly inserted in the conveyance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3407)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3020; 1919 § 2180; 1909 § 2793  (1977) Purchaser at foreclosure sale not entitled to cancellation and refund when he later discovered he had purchased only a life estate. Words "bargain, sell and convey" do not import a covenant of fee simple title. Use of word "heirs" does not create a warranty of fee simple title. Michie v. National Bank of Caruthersville (A.), 558 S.W.2d 270.
MO Rev Stat § 442.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.430 - Title acquired by grantor after conveyance inures to grantee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.430. Title acquired by grantor after conveyance inures to grantee. — Where a grantor, by the terms of his deed, undertakes to convey to the grantee an indefeasible estate in fee simple absolute, and shall not, at the time of such conveyance, have the legal title to the estate sought to be conveyed, but shall afterward acquire it, the legal estate subsequently acquired by him shall immediately pass to the grantee; and such conveyance shall be as effective as though such legal estate had been in the grantor at the time of the conveyance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3497)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3107; 1919 § 2266; 1909 § 2871  (1959) When person executes two or more mortgages or deeds of trust on the same land, a foreclosure of the senior mortgage will only temporarily extinguish or cut out a junior mortgage, if the mortgagor subsequently acquires title to the land, and the junior mortgage will be revived and reinstated against the land. Sabine v. Leonard (Mo.), 322 S.W.2d 831.
MO Rev Stat § 442.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.440 - Conveyances to counties for their use — effect.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.440. Conveyances to counties for their use — effect. — All deeds, grants and conveyances made, acknowledged and recorded as other deeds conveying lands, tenements or hereditaments to any county, or the inhabitants of any county, and their successors, or to the governor, or any person, by whatever form of conveyance, for the use and benefit of any county, shall vest in such county, in fee simple, all the right, title, interest and estate which the grantor in such deed had, at the time of the execution thereof, in the lands thereby conveyed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3505)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3115; 1919 § 2274; 1909 § 2879  CROSS REFERENCE:  Commissioner to sell county lands--deeds by, 49.280, 49.290
MO Rev Stat § 442.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.450 - Conveyance to more than one — effect.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.450. Conveyance to more than one — effect. — Every interest in real estate granted or devised to two or more persons, other than executors and trustees and husband and wife, shall be a tenancy in common, unless expressly declared, in such grant or devise, to be in joint tenancy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3504)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3114; 1919 § 2273; 1909 § 2878  (1961) Deed drawn by layman conveying land to mother and daughter "as tenants by entirety and to the survivor of them", and repeating such language in the quitclaim provision and in the habendum clause created a joint tenancy in mother and daughter. Powers v. Buckowitz (Mo.), 347 S.W.2d 174. (1962) Land devised to three people "to share equally and to the survivors of them" created a joint life tenancy in devisees with a contingent remainder in the survivor, and no joint tenant can by conveyance, partition or otherwise destroy the right of survivorship. Johnson v. Woodard (A.), 356 S.W.2d 526. (1967) The use of the words "as tenants by the entirety" in relation to two persons who are not husband and wife creates no presumption of a joint tenancy. Horton v. Estate of Elmore (A.), 420 S.W.2d 48.
MO Rev Stat § 442.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.460 - The term "heirs" not necessary to convey a fee simple estate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.460. The term "heirs" not necessary to convey a fee simple estate. — The term "heirs", or other words of inheritance, shall not be necessary to create or convey an estate in fee simple, and every conveyance of real estate shall pass all the estate of the grantor therein, unless the intent to pass a less estate shall expressly appear, or be necessarily implied in the terms of the grant. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3496)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3106; 1919 § 2265; 1909 § 2870  CROSS REFERENCE:  Devise omitting words "heirs and assigns" creates fee simple, 474.480  (1959) Provision of contract conveying realty, granting to purchaser soil from the seller's adjoining tract for a fill on the land conveyed held to be a covenant running with the land even though such provision omitted the words "his heirs and assigns". Kerrick v. Schoenberg (Mo.), 328 S.W.2d 595. (1960) Conveyance to two persons with habendum clause reciting that grantees are to hold "as joint tenants, and not as tenants in common, with right of survivorship, and to their heirs and assigns forever" created joint tenancy and the right of survivorship was defeated by a subsequent conveyance by one of joint tenants. McClendon v. Johnson (Mo.), 337 S.W.2d 77.
MO Rev Stat § 442.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate|Section 442.470 - Entails not allowed — the remainder in fee simple — to whom it shall pass.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   442.470. Entails not allowed — the remainder in fee simple — to whom it shall pass. — In cases where, by the common or statute law of England, any person might become seized in fee tail of any lands, by virtue of any devise, gift, grant or other conveyance, or by any other means whatever, such person, instead of being seized thereof in fee tail, shall be deemed and adjudged to be, and shall become, seized thereof for his natural life only; and the remainder shall pass in fee simple absolute to the person to whom the estate tail would, on the death of the first grantee, devisee or donee in tail, first pass according to the course of the common law, by virtue of such devise, gift, grant or conveyance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3498)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3108; 1919 § 2267; 1909 § 2872