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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 109.160

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Probate: Proving a will

When any record of judgments or executions, or any allowances or orders of any probate division of the circuit court or county commission, or any inventory, sale bill or appraisement or other document or paper filed or being in any court of record shall have been mutilated, lost or destroyed, stolen or carried away, any person interested in any such record or paper, or his or her agent or attorney may make out a statement in writing, verified by affidavit, setting out as near as may be the full contents of said lost, mutilated or destroyed record or paper, and file the same in the clerk’s office wherein said lost, mutilated or destroyed records belonged.