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MO Rev Stat § 446.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|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 answers thereto, into the English language; and the officer taking his deposition shall reduce the questions and answers to writing, in the English language, which, being distinctly translated to him by said interpreter, shall be sworn to and subscribed by said witness. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1987)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1823; 1919 § 5510; 1909 § 6453
MO Rev Stat § 446.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|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 equal proportion of the expenses incurred in obtaining it. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1986)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1822; 1919 § 5509; 1909 § 6452
MO Rev Stat § 446.175 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.175 - Land patent not issued by state, owner may acquire, requirements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   446.175. Land patent not issued by state, owner may acquire, requirements. — 1. Any person owning land for which a patent should have been issued by the state but was not may acquire a patent for such land by:  (1) Proving, by affidavits or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the secretary of state, that he, or someone under whom he claims title, purchased the land for which the patent is sought from the state and that the state has been paid for such land; and  (2) Proving, by affidavits of two disinterested householders of the township in which the land for which a patent is sought is located, that he, and those under whom he claims title, have been in open, notorious, exclusive, continuous, adverse, and hostile possession of all of such land for the period of ten years immediately prior to the time of applying for a patent under this section, and that during such time no other person has ever set up or made any claim to such land, or any portion thereof, which is hostile or adverse to the title of the applicant and those under whom he claims title.  2. When an applicant has complied with subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection 1 of this section, the secretary of state shall issue the patent requested.  3. The provisions of this section shall only apply when the records in the office of the secretary of state show that the land in question is state land which has not been disposed of to any other person and when all documents and proofs required by this section have been filed in the land department of the secretary of state and preserved among the records thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1983 S.B. 109)
MO Rev Stat § 446.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|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 mesne conveyances from the person to whom such erroneous patent was issued, may have a new patent issued correctly describing such land by:  (1) Proving, by affidavits or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the secretary of state, that he, or someone under whom he claims title, purchased the land for which a corrected patent is sought from the state and that the state has been paid for such land; and  (2) Filing an affidavit that he makes no claim to the land erroneously described in the patent sought to be corrected and that neither he, nor anyone by, through, or under whom he claims title, has ever made any claim to such land by virtue of or under such erroneous patent.  2. When an applicant has complied with subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection 1 of this section, the secretary of state shall make the correction requested. A new patent correctly describing the land to which the applicant claims title shall be issued to such applicant when he delivers the erroneous patent or a certified copy thereof to the secretary of state, or proves to the secretary of state, by affidavits of two disinterested householders of the township in which the land to be described in the corrected patent is located, that he, and those under whom he claims title, have been in the open, notorious, exclusive, continuous, adverse, and hostile possession of all of such land for the period of ten years immediately prior to the time of filing an application under this section, and that during such time no other person has ever set up or made any claim to such land, or any portion thereof, which is hostile or adverse to the title of the applicant and those under whom he claims title; and executes a deed releasing the erroneously patented land to the state.  3. The provisions of this section shall only apply when the records in the office of the secretary of state show that the land in question is state land which has not been disposed of to any other person and when all documents and proofs required by this section have been filed in the land department of the secretary of state and preserved among the records thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12715, A.L. 1983 S.B. 109)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11091; 1919 § 6955; 1909 § 7959
MO Rev Stat § 446.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.200 - Certificate of judges entered of record — received in evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.200. Certificate of judges entered of record — received in evidence. — 1. The certificate provided for by section 446.190 to be made and filed by the said judges of the circuit court and the commissioners of the county commission, or by the judges of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, shall be by the said clerk of the circuit court entered and spread upon the records of the circuit court of the county, the said records of which have been so lost, destroyed or injured.  2. Thereupon, the said clerk of the circuit court of such county shall make out from said circuit court records, and transmit to the recorder of deeds of such county a certified copy of such certificate, so made and filed by said judges or commissioners, and the recorder of deeds shall, thereupon, record such certified copy of said certificate in the land record books of his office.  3. And a certified copy of said judges' certificate, under the hand and official seal of the clerk of the circuit court of such county, shall be received in all of the courts of this state, and in all of the courts held within this state, and in all places and inquiries within this state wherein said matters and things may be pertinent, as prima facie evidence of the facts and recitals set out and contained in said certificate of said judges or commissioners. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1950)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1786; 1919 § 5473; 1909 § 6416
MO Rev Stat § 446.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.210 - Abstract of title to lands received in evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.210. Abstract of title to lands received in evidence, when. — In all cases, and in all suits, trials and actions, in any of the courts of this state, and in any of the courts held within this state, in any proceeding relating to, or affecting the title to lands, or any interest therein, or any lien or encumbrance thereon, any party to such case, suit, trial or action shall be permitted to offer and introduce as evidence therein, and all of the said courts shall receive as competent evidence therein, any abstract of title, or land title abstract book, or books, which are fair upon their face, and which are shown to have been made by any person, in the usual and ordinary course of business, prior to the loss, injury or destruction of the official records, or parts thereof, of the county wherein the lands affected by such suit, trial or action lie; provided, that before such abstract, or land title abstract books shall be admissible, the party desiring to offer the same, or his agent, or attorney, shall, orally, in court, or by an affidavit filed in the cause, state under oath, that the originals of the deeds, conveyances or instruments affecting the title, or some part thereof, are lost, destroyed, or so injured as to be illegible, or that the said originals are not within the power of the party to produce, and that the record of such deeds, conveyances and instruments has been lost, destroyed or burned. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1951)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1787; 1919 § 5474; 1909 § 6417
MO Rev Stat § 446.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.220 - Fees allowed to owners of abstracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.220. Fees allowed to owners of abstracts. — The owner, owners, keeper or custodian of any such abstracts or land title abstract books shall be allowed to charge for the services rendered under the provisions of sections 446.190 to 446.220 the following fees only:   For the first entry, or remove in the chain of title, in any copy of an abstract $1.00   For each additional entry therein .50   For certificate and authentication to copy of abstract .50   For producing abstract books in court as evidence, in any court held in the county wherein the custodian of the abstracts resides, for each day 3.50   For producing abstract books in court as evidence, in any court held outside of the county wherein the custodian of the abstract resides, for each day, and for each day spent in going and returning 5.00   For mileage in going to and returning from court, per mile .05   ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1952)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1788; 1919 § 5475; 1909 § 6418
MO Rev Stat § 446.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.230 - Certain titles confirmed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.230. Certain titles confirmed. — Whenever the title in fee to any lands shall be vested in the state of Missouri, under the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to vest in the several states and territories the title in fee of the lands which have been or may be certified to them", approved August 3, 1854, the same shall inure to and be vested in the purchaser from the state in all cases where such lands have been sold; and all patents or conveyances executed by the governor for lands sold by the state are hereby confirmed, and all the title the state now has or hereafter may acquire, by virtue of the above recited act, to the land so sold, is hereby granted to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, as fully as the same could be done by issuance of a new patent. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1847)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1683; 1919 § 5370; 1909 § 6415
MO Rev Stat § 446.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.240 - Duty of register of lands, evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.240. Duty of register of lands, evidence. — The register of lands shall procure suitable books and record therein all letters and instructions received from the land department at Washington concerning lands granted to this state, and shall also record in such books all lists of lands certified by the commissioner of such land office, under the provisions of the act recited in section 446.230, as belonging to the state; and copies of such record, certified by the register of lands, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1848)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1684; 1919 § 5371; 1909 § 6316  CROSS REFERENCES:  Copies of patents evidence, when, 59.390  Patents to be evidence of title, 241.120
MO Rev Stat § 446.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.250 - New Madrid certificates and patents prima facie evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.250. New Madrid certificates and patents prima facie evidence. — When, in any action for the recovery of the possession of premises, any land shall be claimed by virtue of a location in lieu of other lands injured by earthquakes, the certificate of new location granted by the recorder of land titles, and the patent issued in consequence, shall be only prima facie evidence of title in the grantee therein named, subject to be rebutted as herein prescribed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1539)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1375; 1919 § 1825; 1909 § 2392
MO Rev Stat § 446.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.260 - Rebutted, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.260. Rebutted, how. — It shall be lawful for the adverse party to rebut such evidence by proof that the grantee in such certificate or patent named was not, at the time the same or either of them issued, the owner of the injured lands in lieu of which the said certificate or patent issued, and the title to the land located by virtue of such certificate or patent shall be determined according to the rights of the parties to the land, as located by virtue thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1540)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1376; 1919 § 1826; 1909 § 2393
MO Rev Stat § 446.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.270 - New Madrid certificates.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.270. New Madrid certificates. — Copies of certificates granted by the recorder of land titles, under the act of Congress for the relief of the sufferers by earthquakes in the county of New Madrid, and all other books and papers, which by law are required to be deposited or kept at his office, duly certified by him, shall be received as evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1832)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1668; 1919 § 5355; 1909 § 6300
MO Rev Stat § 446.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.280 - Confirmations of land titles — copies.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.280. Confirmations of land titles — copies. — Copies of confirmations had before the board of commissioners for the adjustment of land claims within this state, or before the recorder of land titles, duly certified by the recorder of land titles, or by the person who shall by law have the custody of the books and papers containing such confirmations, shall be received as evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1831)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1667; 1919 § 5354; 1909 § 6299
MO Rev Stat § 446.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.290 - French and Spanish grants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.290. French and Spanish grants. — All grants and concessions of land, all warrants, orders, plats and certificates of survey made and signed by the proper officers of the French or Spanish government, which shall have been filed in the office of the recorder of land titles, by virtue of any law of the United States, and all deeds, conveyances and evidences of title made before, and signed by such officers of the French or Spanish government, which shall have been filed and recorded as aforesaid, being certified by such recorder to have been recorded in his office, shall be received in evidence without further proof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1833)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1669; 1919 § 5356; 1909 § 6301
MO Rev Stat § 446.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.300 - Copies from Livre Terrein.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.300. Copies from Livre Terrein. — Copies of all petitions, grants, orders and returns of survey, and other evidences of title, contained in any land book, commonly called Livre Terrein, and copies of all such other records of the French or Spanish government, and of such evidences of title mentioned in the preceding section, as are by law required to be deposited in the office of the recorder of land titles, duly certified by him, shall be received in evidence, with like effect as the original. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1834)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1670; 1919 § 5357; 1909 § 6302
MO Rev Stat § 446.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.310 - French and Spanish archives, evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.310. French and Spanish archives, evidence. — When any such conveyance or other evidences of title, as mentioned in section 446.290 shall have belonged to the archives of the French or Spanish government, and shall have been deposited in the office of the recorder of any county, and therein recorded, it shall, being duly certified by such recorder, be received in evidence without further proof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1835)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1671; 1919 § 5358; 1909 § 6303
MO Rev Stat § 446.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.320 - French and Spanish archives, copies of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.320. French and Spanish archives, copies of. — A copy of any such conveyance or evidence of title, among the archives of the French or Spanish government, deposited in pursuance of law, in the office of the recorder of any county, and therein recorded, and a copy of any record of the French or Spanish government, so deposited in such office, being duly certified by him, shall be received in evidence with like effect as the original. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1836)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1672; 1919 § 5359; 1909 § 6304
MO Rev Stat § 446.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.330 - Copies of record of original archives.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.330. Copies of record of original archives. — Whenever it shall appear that the original of any of the records, archives or other evidences mentioned in sections 446.290 to 446.320, after having been deposited and recorded in the office of the recorder of land titles, or of the recorder of any county, in pursuance of law, cannot be found therein, or has been lost or destroyed, or that neither the original nor a duly certified copy thereof can be obtained by the parties wishing to use it, a copy of the record of such original, duly certified by the officer having charge of such record, shall be received in evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1837)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1673; 1919 § 5360; 1909 § 6305
MO Rev Stat § 446.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.340 - Archives of recorder's office of St. Louis, evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.340. Archives of recorder's office of St. Louis, evidence. — Certified copies of the records of the ancient archives deposited in the office of the recorder of the county or city of St. Louis, consisting of deeds, mortgages, marriage contracts, settlements, adjudications and other instruments of writing relating to or affecting titles to real estate, and which were received from the French or Spanish authorities of Louisiana, and which have been or may hereafter be recorded, as directed by law, shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1849)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1685; 1919 § 5372; 1909 § 6317
MO Rev Stat § 446.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.350 - Copies of plats, surveys — United States surveyor's office.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.350. Copies of plats, surveys — United States surveyor's office. — Copies of plats, surveys, entries, New Madrid certificates and locations, and of all other papers which are by law required to be deposited or kept in the office of the surveyor of the lands of the United States in this state, duly certified by such surveyor, shall be received as evidence. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1838)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1674; 1919 § 5361; 1909 § 6306  CROSS REFERENCES:  Copies of entries on book of United States land office to be received in evidence, 490.200  Copies of letters received by the register of any United States land office from superior officer received in evidence, 490.210
MO Rev Stat § 447.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 447 - Lost and Unclaimed Property|Section 447.010 - Duty of persons finding lost money, goods.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   447.010. Duty of persons finding lost money, goods. — If any person finds any money, goods, right in action, or other personal property, or valuable thing whatever, of the value of ten dollars or more, the owner of which is unknown, he shall, within ten days, make an affidavit before some judge of the circuit court of the county, other than a municipal judge, stating when and where he found the same, that the owner is unknown to him, and that he has not secreted, withheld or disposed of any part thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15317, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14227; 1919 § 7287; 1909 § 8268  Effective 1-02-79  CROSS REFERENCE:  Strays, Chap. 271
MO Rev Stat § 447.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 447 - Lost and Unclaimed Property|Section 447.020 - Appointment of appraisers by circuit judge.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   447.020. Appointment of appraisers by circuit judge. — Such judge shall then, if necessary, summon three disinterested householders to appraise the same; such appraisers, or any two of them, shall make two lists of the valuation and description of such property, money, or other valuable thing, and sign and make oath to the same, and shall deliver one of the lists to the finder and the other to the judge. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15318, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14228; 1919 § 7288; 1909 § 8269  Effective 1-02-79