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MO Rev Stat § 490.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.030 - Certified statute book of other states, evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.030. Certified statute book of other states, evidence, when. — Copies of any act, law, resolution or constitution, contained in any printed statute book of a sister state or territory, shall be received in any of the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the act, law, resolution or constitution contained therein; provided, the secretary of state of such state or territory, or the secretary of state of this state, shall certify that the same is a correct copy, under his hand and seal of office, and shall set out in his certificate, in full, the title page of such printed books. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1814)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1650; 1919 § 5337; 1909 § 6282
MO Rev Stat § 490.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.040 - Books containing acts of Congress.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.040. Books containing acts of Congress. — The printed books containing the acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be published by authority of congress, or by authority of the United States, shall be evidence of the laws, public or private, general, local or special, therein contained. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1815)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1651; 1919 § 5338; 1909 § 6283
MO Rev Stat § 490.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.050 - Printed federal acts received in evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.050. Printed federal acts received in evidence, when. — Copies of any act, law or resolution contained in any such book, now or hereafter deposited in the office of the secretary of state, certified under the hand and official seal of said secretary, shall be received in evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1816)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1652; 1919 § 5339; 1909 § 6284  (1956) Where defendant in criminal case on cross-examination first denied and then admitted conviction of crime but stated he remembered very little about it and his attorney's questions tended to elicit answers that he had not been convicted, the record of his conviction was admissible. State v. Barnholtz (Mo.), 287 S.W.2d 808.
MO Rev Stat § 490.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.060 - Printed reports of other states, evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.060. Printed reports of other states, evidence. — The printed books of cases adjudged in the courts of a sister state may be admitted as evidence of the unwritten or common law of such state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1865)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1701; 1919 § 5388; 1909 § 6332  (1966) Trial judge has duty in each case to determine whether a child under ten is competent before permitting the child to testify. State v. Tandy (Mo.), 401 S.W.2d 409.
MO Rev Stat § 490.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.070 - Short title.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.070. Short title. — Sections 490.070 to 490.120 may be cited as "The Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act". ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 490.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.080 - Judicial notice to be taken.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.080. Judicial notice to be taken. — Every court of this state shall take judicial notice of the common law and statutes of every state, territory and other jurisdiction of the United States. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 2)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Foreign law, judicial notice taken, when pleaded, RSMo 509.220  (1951) Courts take judicial notice of the statutes and judicial decisions of sister states. Hughes Prov. Co. v. LaMear Poultry & Egg Co. (A.), 242 S.W.2d 285. (1956) Where automobile and street car collision occurred in Kansas and law of Kansas was pleaded, such law governed the substantive rights of the parties. Wilson v. K. C. Pub. Serv. Co. (Mo.), 291 S.W.2d 110. (1957) Air traffic rules of federal Civil Aeronautics Board held properly considered in determining negligence but violation thereof is not negligence as matter of law. Court indicated judicial notice might be taken of such rules and that trial court had discretion to permit reading same in evidence. Hough v. Rapidair Inc. (Mo.), 298 S.W.2d 378.
MO Rev Stat § 490.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.090 - Court may inform itself of laws.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.090. Court may inform itself of laws. — The court may inform itself of such laws in such manner as it may deem proper, and the court may call upon counsel to aid it in obtaining such information. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 490.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.100 - Determination of laws.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.100. Determination of laws. — The determination of such laws shall be made by the court and not by the jury, and shall be reviewable. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 4)
MO Rev Stat § 490.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.110 - Presentation of laws to trial court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.110. Presentation of laws to trial court. — Any party may also present to the trial court any admissible evidence of such laws, but, to enable a party to offer evidence of the law in another jurisdiction or to ask that judicial notice be taken thereof, reasonable notice shall be given to the adverse parties either in the pleadings or otherwise. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 5)  (1966) Allegation in petition that cause of action arose in Illinois constituted sufficient "reasonable notice" of intent to rely on foreign law. Valleroy v. Southern Railway Co. (Mo.), 403 S.W.2d 553.
MO Rev Stat § 490.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.120 - What law to be issue for the court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.120. What law to be issue for the court. — The law of a jurisdiction other than those referred to in section 490.080 shall be an issue for the court, but shall not be subject to the foregoing provisions concerning judicial notice. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 6)
MO Rev Stat § 490.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.130 - Certified records of courts to be evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 2001   490.130. Certified records of courts to be evidence. — The records of judicial proceedings of any court of the United States, or of any state, attested by the clerk thereof, with the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, and certified by the judge, chief justice or presiding associate circuit judge of the court to be attested in due form, shall have such faith and credit given to them in this state as they would have at the place whence the said records come. Copies from the record of proceedings of any court of this state, attested by the clerk thereof, with the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, or if there be no seal, with the private seal of the clerk, shall be received as evidence of the acts or proceedings of such court in any court of this state. Records of proceedings of any court of this state contained within any statewide court automated record-keeping system established by the supreme court shall be received as evidence of the acts or proceedings in any court of this state without further certification of the clerk, provided that the location from which such records are obtained is disclosed to the opposing party. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1864, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869, A.L. 2001 S.B. 267)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1700; 1919 § 5387; 1909 § 6331  (1953) Certified copy of order of county court adjudging person to be insane and proper person to be sent to state hospital which was made while county court had jurisdiction thereof, held admissible in evidence in robbery prosecution of such person as tending to show his mental condition. State v. St. Clair (Mo.), 262 S.W.2d 25. (1954) Where administrator of estate in Colorado removed to this state without accounting for or settling the estate, a judgment of the Colorado Court against the administrator for the amount found due from him plus interest, after service on such administrator by registered mail and service in Missouri by sheriff, held valid and allowable against the estate of such administrator after his death, in a probate court in this state. Shearer v. Parker, 364 Mo. 723, 267 S.W.2d 18. (1963) Photostatic copy of document purporting to be record of conviction and sentence of defendant in Kentucky having name of judge typed thereon and certificate of clerk of court with writing indicating that the certificate was prepared by a third person was inadmissible under this section as evidence of prior conviction under habitual criminal statute. State v. Young (Mo.), 366 S.W.2d 386. (1967) Failure of judge of federal district court to certify that copy of judgment and commitment attested by clerk in due form was not ground for refusing to admit record when court's ruling included finding that attestation was in due form. State v. Wolfskill (Mo.), 421 S.W.2d 193.
MO Rev Stat § 490.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.140 - Justice court records, evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.140. Justice court records, evidence, when. — Where the docket, files, books and papers of a justice of the peace shall have been delivered to a clerk of the county commission according to law, copies of such docket, files, books or papers, certified by such clerk, shall be evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1867)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1703; 1919 § 5390; 1909 § 6334
MO Rev Stat § 490.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.150 - Public documents edited by authority of Congress.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.150. Public documents edited by authority of Congress. — Public documents, purporting to be edited or printed by authority of congress, or either house thereof, shall be evidence to the same extent that authenticated copies of the same would be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1818)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1654; 1919 § 5341; 1909 § 6286  (1960) Book prepared by federal agency relating to the prospective development of area in which land was located held properly excluded in condemnation action to determine the value of property. State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Dockery (Mo.), 340 S.W.2d 689.
MO Rev Stat § 490.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.160 - Printed journals of senate and house of this state.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.160. Printed journals of senate and house of this state. — The printed journal of the senate and house of representatives of this state, and all public documents or reports therein contained, and all reports or documents printed by the order of this state, or by either house of the general assembly, or purporting to be printed by authority thereof, shall be prima facie evidence to the same extent that duly authenticated copies of the originals would be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1819)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1655; 1919 § 5342; 1909 § 6287
MO Rev Stat § 490.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.170 - Printing authority to be stated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   490.170. Printing authority to be stated. — There shall be inserted on the title page of all books and documents printed by state officials, a statement showing by what authority the same are printed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1820, A. 1949 S.B. 1148)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1656; 1919 § 5343; 1909 § 6288
MO Rev Stat § 490.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.180 - Certified copies of certain official records.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.180. Certified copies of certain official records. — Copies of all papers on file in the office of the secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and register of lands, or of any matter recorded in either of said offices, certified under the seal of the respective offices, shall be evidence in all courts of this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1821)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1657; 1919 § 5344; 1909 § 6289  (1959) Sections 490.180 and 490.190 do not deal with records of the department of revenue, and in any event, the original records of such agency are admissible although not certified. State v. Ferrara (Mo.), 320 S.W.2d 540.
MO Rev Stat § 490.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.190 - Certified copies in offices of auditor and treasurer.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   490.190. Certified copies in offices of auditor and treasurer. — Copies of all papers and documents lawfully deposited in the office either of the treasurer or auditor of the state, when certified by such officer and authenticated by the seal of office, shall be received in evidence in the same manner and with the like effect as the originals. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1824)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1660; 1919 § 5347; 1909 § 6292
MO Rev Stat § 490.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.200 - Copies from United States land offices.

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 the trial of any cause in any of the courts of this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1822)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1658; 1919 § 5345; 1909 § 6290
MO Rev Stat § 490.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.210 - Copies of letters received by register of land office.

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 receiver, certified by the said register or receiver to be correct, shall be legal evidence in the trial of any cause in any court in this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1823)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1659; 1919 § 5346; 1909 § 6291
MO Rev Stat § 490.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.220 - Office records of the United States or sister state.

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 record or books, and the seal of his office, if there be a seal. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1825)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1661; 1919 § 5348; 1909 § 6293  (1956) Death certificate of sister state has same value as if issued in this state if required by law to be made in manner similar to that required by the laws of this state, and it is therefore prima facie evidence of facts stated in it. Lynde v. Western & Southern Life Ins. Co. (A.), 293 S.W.2d 147. (1956) Where records of penitentiaries were certified by proper officials under 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1738 and 1739, they were admissible to show defendant's incarceration and release. State v. Ash (Mo.), 296 S.W.2d 41. (1963) In absence of proof which established senior record clerk to be keeper of records within meaning of this section, exhibits purporting to show defendant's confinement in Kentucky penitentiary and attested by senior records clerk of the penitentiary were not admissible in prosecution wherein defendant was charged under habitual criminal statute. State v. Young (Mo.), 366 S.W.2d 386. (1972) Recital in certificate to a copy of document as to official character of the officer as the legal custodian of it is prima facie proof of that fact, and it is unnecessary to call witnesses to prove identity of custodian or his signature and burden of rebutting the presumption is on one contesting it. Such certification held sufficient to comply with this section against contention that there was no proof that the records were kept in any public office of sister state. State v. Brown (Mo.), 476 S.W.2d 519.
MO Rev Stat § 490.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.230 - Exemplification by President and others.

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 papers, when attested by the governor or the secretary of state thereof, under his official seal. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1826)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1662; 1919 § 5349; 1909 § 6294
MO Rev Stat § 490.235 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.235 - Printed copies of utility tariffs, evidence, when.

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, as I. C. C. No. ______, and an effective date, or which show respectively a public service commission number, which may be stated in abbreviated form, as P. S. C. Mo. No. ______ or Mo. P. S. C. No. ______, and an effective date, may be received in evidence without certification and shall be presumed to be correct copies of the original schedules, classifications, tariffs and supplements on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission or on file with the public service commission. ­­-------- (L. 1953 p. 511 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 490.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.240 - Records of cities and towns.

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 bylaws, certified under the hand of the officer having the same in lawful custody, with the seal of such city or town annexed, shall be received as evidence in all courts and places in this state, without further proof; and any printed pamphlet or volume, purporting to be published by authority of any such town or city, and to contain the ordinances, resolutions, rules, orders or bylaws of such town or city, shall be evidence, in all courts and places within this state, of such ordinances, resolutions, rules, orders or bylaws. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1827)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1663; 1919 § 5350; 1909 § 6295  CROSS REFERENCE:  Ordinances, resolutions of cities received in evidence, 88.503  (1960) Refusal to allow plaintiff's counsel to introduce city ordinance was not error where a portion was misquoted and a portion, as contained in plaintiff's brief, was irrelevant and the record failed to show plaintiff attempted to prove the ordinance by proper means although the reason given for objection was unsound. Sorrel v. Hudson (Mo.), 335 S.W.2d 1. (1962) Maps of reorganized school districts from files of state department of education which were submitted by the respective county boards of education were properly received in evidence in action for declaratory judgment to fix the boundary between two reorganized school districts. Reorganized Sch. Dist. R-I v. Reorganized Sch. Dist. R-III (A.), 360 S.W.2d 376.
MO Rev Stat § 490.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.250 - Records of corporations and financial institutions.

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 received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state, in the same manner and with like effect as the originals.  2. All depository financial institutions and trust companies chartered under the laws of this state or chartered by the federal government and located in this state may provide such copies of all records, papers, and other documents as duplications permitted by subsection 1 of section 362.413, provided the financial institutions retain information in a form permitted by subsection 1 of section 362.413 so that the front and back side of checks and drafts are available for duplication. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1828, A.L. 1998 S.B. 792)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1664; 1919 § 5351; 1909 § 6296  CROSS REFERENCE:  Articles and certificates of incorporation as evidence, 351.075, 352.060, 388.050, 392.020
MO Rev Stat § 490.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.260 - Records of religious societies.

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 § 1665; 1919 § 5352; 1909 § 6297
MO Rev Stat § 490.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.270 - Certified copies of religious records.

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 evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1830)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1666; 1919 § 5353; 1909 § 6298
MO Rev Stat § 490.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements|Chapter 490 - Evidence|Section 490.280 - Instruments under repealed law.

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, and with like effect, as if such law remained in full force. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1839)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1675; 1919 § 5362; 1909 § 6307