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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 443.340

  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

If such court shall be satisfied that the facts stated in such affidavit are true, it shall make an order appointing the sheriff, or some other suitable person of the county, trustee to execute such deed of trust, in the place of the original trustees; and thereupon such sheriff, or other suitable person appointed by said court, shall be possessed of all the rights, powers and authority possessed by the original trustee, under the deed of trust, and such sheriff or other person shall proceed to sell and convey the property and to pay off the debts and liabilities according to the directions of the deed of trust, and shall do all other acts the original trustee had power to do, and with the same force and effect.