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MO Rev Stat § 490.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.290 - Deed acknowledged under former law.

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 have been duly recorded in the proper office, within one year from its date, and more than twenty years from the time it is offered in evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1840)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1676; 1919 § 5363; 1909 § 6308
MO Rev Stat § 490.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.300 - Deed, evidence upon proof of certain facts.

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 as, together with the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, shall satisfy the court that the person who executed the instrument is the person therein named as grantor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1841)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1677; 1919 § 5364; 1909 § 6309  CROSS REFERENCES:  Execution of deeds, proof required, 442.260, 442.300  Guardian of minor, acknowledged deed to be evidence, 475.245
MO Rev Stat § 490.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.310 - Original deed lost — certified copy of deed, evidence when.

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 use it, a certified copy of the record thereof, and of the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, shall be received in evidence upon like proof as is required in case of the original, and with like effect. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1842)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1678; 1919 § 5365; 1909 § 6310
MO Rev Stat § 490.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.320 - Copy of deed, when evidence.

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 in any of the courts of record of this state, and a copy of such deed or conveyance has been preserved in a bill of exceptions taken and filed in such cause, and a transcript of the proceedings therein has been filed in the supreme court or any district of the court of appeals, upon proof that the deed or conveyance has been lost or destroyed, the copy thereof contained in such transcript, duly certified under the hand and seal of the clerk of the proper court, may be read in evidence in any suit. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1843, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1679; 1919 § 5366; 1909 § 6311  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 490.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.330 - Evidence offered to reject such copy.

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 not what it purports to be, or that it was not executed by those in whose name it purports to have been executed, or that the copy offered is not a true copy of the original; and the court shall determine thereon, and admit or reject the instrument, according to the evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1844)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1680; 1919 § 5367; 1909 § 6312
MO Rev Stat § 490.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.340 - Certain recorded instruments to impart notice, when.

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 it is not certified or is defectively certified, shall from the date this section takes effect, or one year after the recorded instrument or copy is filed with the recorder for record, whichever date is later, impart notice of the contents thereof in the same manner and to the same extent as would an identical recorded instrument or copy which is duly certified. The certification referred to in this section includes not only certification of proof or acknowledgment, or other certification, but also verification, authentication, attestation, or any other condition precedent to recording made by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1845, A.L. 1959 S.B. 113)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1681; 1919 § 5368; 1909 § 6313  (1956) History of section discussed statute held inapplicable to recordation after last reenactment in 1939. Hatcher v. Hall (A.), 292 S.W.2d 619.
MO Rev Stat § 490.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.350 - Copies of recorded instruments.

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 been made thirty years or more prior to the time of offering the certified copies in evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1846, A.L. 1959 S.B. 113)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1682; 1919 § 5369; 1909 § 6314
MO Rev Stat § 490.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.360 - Evidence of execution of real estate instrument.

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 estate, right or interest in or to the same shall have been claimed or enjoyed by any person, by or through such writing, instrument or deed, for a period of ten consecutive years, such writing, instrument or deed, and a certified copy thereof, and of the time of its record, shall be prima facie evidence of the execution of such writing, instrument or deed, and of its genuineness and time of record; provided, the said record thereof shall have been made at least ten years next before such writing, instrument or deed, or certified copy thereof, is offered in evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1850)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1686; 1919 § 5373; 1909 § 6318
MO Rev Stat § 490.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.370 - Recitals in deeds, evidence of heirship in certain cases.

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, showing or tending to show such heirship, or kinship, or if there shall have been, or shall be, an affidavit made in connection with said deed by one or more of the makers thereof, and attached to said deed, with a recital therein, showing, or tending to show, such heirship or kinship, such recital in such deed or such affidavit or both or the record thereof, may be read in evidence as the testimony of the persons making such deed or affidavit, in the trial of any suit in any court in this state wherein the title to the real estate described in said deed, or any part thereof, is involved or called in question in any manner; provided, however, that the maker of such deed and affidavit shall be dead or absent from the state or otherwise disqualified from testifying in suit, and, that before such recital or affidavit shall be received in evidence it must be shown that the said deed was filed for record, in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county where said real estate, or some part thereof, is situated, at least five years before the filing of the suit wherein such recital, or affidavit, is offered in evidence; and provided further, that the same person claiming title to said real estate, or some part thereof, or interest therein, or some person through whom he claims under or through said deed, shall have paid taxes on the land described in said deed, or some part thereof, or interest therein, for three different years before the filing of such suit. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1851)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1687; 1919 § 5374
MO Rev Stat § 490.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.380 - Deeds recorded thirty years before 1874.

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 provisions of any law in force in this state, or in the district or territory of Louisiana, or in the territory of Missouri, at the time of its execution and acknowledgment, and which deed has been duly recorded in the proper office more than thirty years before March 28, 1874, shall, together with the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, be received in evidence in all the courts of this state without further proof of the execution thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1875)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1711; 1919 § 5398; 1909 § 6342
MO Rev Stat § 490.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.390 - Copies evidence when original lost.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.390. Copies evidence when original lost. — Copies of the record of such instruments, and of the certificates of acknowledgment or proof thereof, duly certified by the recorder of the county in which the same may have been recorded as aforesaid, when it shall be shown to the court, by oath or affidavit of the party wishing to use the same, or of anyone knowing the fact, that such instrument is lost, or not within the power of the party wishing to use the same, shall be received in evidence with like effect and on the same conditions as the original instrument. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1876)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1712; 1919 § 5399; 1909 § 6343
MO Rev Stat § 490.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.400 - Sheriff's deed in tax sale, evidence of what.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.400. Sheriff's deed in tax sale, evidence of what. — All deeds heretofore executed, or that may hereafter be executed, by any sheriff to a purchaser of land sold for delinquent and back taxes, shall be prima facie evidence that the persons named therein as defendants in the suit to enforce the lien of the state of Missouri for the delinquent and back taxes, were the absolute owners of the land conveyed, at the time of the institution of the action. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1879)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1715; 1919 § 5402; 1909 § 6346  CROSS REFERENCE:  Sheriff's deeds when recorded, or record thereof, evidence, 513.290
MO Rev Stat § 490.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.410 - Acknowledged instruments affecting realty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.410. Acknowledged instruments affecting realty. — Every instrument in writing, conveying or affecting real estate, which shall be acknowledged or proved, and certified as herein prescribed, may, together with the certificates of acknowledgment or proof, and relinquishment, be read in evidence, without further proof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3435)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3048; 1919 § 2207; 1909 § 2818  CROSS REFERENCE:  Instruments affecting real estate in foreign language, sworn translation evidence, when, 442.140  (1952) This section means that a certificate of acknowledgment is prima facie evidence that the deed was duly executed; that is that it was signed and delivered. Baker v. Baker, 363 Mo. 318, 251 S.W.2d 31.  (1955) Bond, given by purchaser of land to insure against forbidden use, which was executed by corporation in manner prescribed by statute, acknowledged and recorded, held admissible in evidence and imported a consideration. Cook v. Tide Water Associated Oil Co. (A.), 281 S.W.2d 415.
MO Rev Stat § 490.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.420 - Certified copy thereof read in evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.420. Certified copy thereof read in evidence. — Where any such instrument is acknowledged or proved, certified and recorded, in the manner herein prescribed, and it shall be shown to the court by the oath or affidavit of the party wishing to use the same, or of anyone knowing the fact, that such instrument is lost, or not within the power of the party wishing to use the same, the record thereof, or the transcript of such record, certified by the recorder under the seal of his office, may be read in evidence, without further proof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3436)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3049; 1919 § 2208; 1909 § 2819  CROSS REFERENCE:  Conveyances of bounty lands--record or certified copy to be evidence, when, 442.250
MO Rev Stat § 490.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.430 - Shall not be conclusive evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.430. Shall not be conclusive evidence, when. — Neither the certificate of the acknowledgment nor the proof of any such instrument nor the record nor the transcript of the record of such instrument, shall be conclusive, but the same may be rebutted. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3437)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3050; 1919 § 2209; 1909 § 2820
MO Rev Stat § 490.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.440 - Shall not be received in evidence until.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.440. Shall not be received in evidence until. — If the party contesting the proof of any such instrument shall make it appear that such proof was taken upon the oath of an incompetent witness, neither such instrument nor the record thereof shall be received in evidence until established by other competent proof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3438)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3051; 1919 § 2210; 1909 § 2821
MO Rev Stat § 490.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.450 - Error in name.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.450. Error in name. — All deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust and other instruments conveying or affecting title to real estate where the Christian names of the grantees therein, or the parties of the second part, are abbreviated by using the initials thereof, or any abbreviation thereof, or where the surname is misspelled, and the same premises are afterwards conveyed by the full Christian name or names, with correct spelling of the surname, the record of such instruments shall be received in evidence and such parties shall be presumed until the contrary appears, to be the same. And in like manner the same shall be true in all cases where the title to any such property is taken in the full Christian name and correct spelling of the surname and conveyed out by the initials or initial or abbreviations of the Christian name or misspelling of the surname; provided, that the surname in which such title was taken is idem sonans with the name by which the title to the same premises were conveyed or affected. And in like manner a variation in the spelling and using of the initials of parties to any court proceedings affecting title to real estate, it shall be presumed, until the contrary appears, that any variation in initials or abbreviations thereof or the misspelling of the surname of any party thereto, such person or persons shall be presumed until the contrary appears, to be the same person or persons claiming title to the real estate affected by such proceedings, as their interest may appear therein; provided, that surnames are idem sonans. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3445)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3058; 1919 § 2217
MO Rev Stat § 490.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.460 - Copies of public contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.460. Copies of public contracts. — Copies of contracts entered into by individuals with the state, or any officer thereof, or with any county, or with any person for the benefit of any county, under or by authority of any law, or the lawful order of any court, the originals of which are, by law or the lawful order of any court, in the custody and keeping of any officer, duly certified and attested by the official seal of such officer, or, if such officer have no official seal, then verified by the affidavit of such officer, may be sued upon, and shall be received in evidence, to all intents and purposes, as the originals themselves. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1853)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1689; 1919 § 5376; 1909 § 6320  (1972) When state enters into a validly authorized contract it lays aside privilege of sovereign immunity. U.S. Di Carlo Construction Co., Inc. v. State (Mo.), 485 S.W.2d 52.
MO Rev Stat § 490.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.470 - Copies of official bonds.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   490.470. Copies of official bonds. — Copies of all bonds required by law to be given by sheriffs, collectors, county treasurers, collectors of the revenue, clerks of the supreme court, districts of the court of appeals, circuit and county commissions, recorders, and all other officers of or under the state, who are required by law to give bond for the faithful performance of their duties, duly certified by the seal of office of the officer in whose custody the bond is required by law to be kept, may be sued upon, and shall be received in evidence, to all intents and purposes, as the originals themselves. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1852, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1688; 1919 § 5375; 1909 § 6319  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 490.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.480 - Copies of bonds of administrators and others.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   490.480. Copies of bonds of administrators and others. — Copies of all bonds required by law to be given by executors, administrators, personal representatives, guardians, conservators and commissioners, for the faithful discharge of their duties as such, and the bonds of principals and sureties required to be taken in the course of any judicial proceeding in any of the courts of this state, duly certified by and attested with the seal of office of the officer to whom by law the custody of the same is committed, shall be evidence, to all intents and purposes, as the originals themselves. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1854, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1690; 1919 § 5377; 1909 § 6321
MO Rev Stat § 490.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.490 - When original shall be produced.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.490. When original shall be produced. — Where suit shall be brought upon any copy of a bond, or contract in writing, mentioned in sections 490.460 to 490.480 and the defendant shall, in his answer, or on motion to the court, deny the execution of such bond or contract, such answer or motion being verified by affidavit, the court may, if necessary to the attainment of justice, require the production of the original bond or other writing. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1855)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1691; 1919 § 5378; 1909 § 6322
MO Rev Stat § 490.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.500 - Record copy of lost instrument.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.500. Record copy of lost instrument. — In all cases where the original of any bond, contract or other instrument, for the recording of which provision has been made by law, shall appear to be lost, or not within control of the party wishing to use the same, the record thereof, or a transcript of such record, certified by the custodian thereof, under the seal of his office, may be read in evidence without further proof, in like manner and with like effect as in the case of the loss of duly recorded instruments affecting real estate. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1856)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1692; 1919 § 5379; 1909 § 6323
MO Rev Stat § 490.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.510 - Proof of endorsement of notes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.510. Proof of endorsement of notes. — Whenever it becomes necessary in any suit to prove an assignment of or an endorsement on any bond, bill or note, an affidavit of a competent witness, proving the same, shall be received as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in such affidavit. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1857)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1693; 1919 § 5380; 1909 § 6324
MO Rev Stat § 490.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.520 - Proof of partnership.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.520. Proof of partnership. — Whenever it becomes necessary in any suit to prove the existence of a partnership, an affidavit of a competent witness, setting forth the names and places of residence of all the partners, the name of the firm, the general nature of the business and where transacted, and the time of the commencement or existence of such partnership, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1858)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1694; 1919 § 5381; 1909 § 6325