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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 233.275

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

If it shall appear that any land within a district so incorporated has been conveyed by mortgage or deed of trust, the mortgagor or owner of the equity of redemption, or if any land shall be owned by a minor, his conservator, or if any land shall have been conveyed or devised to a trustee to be held by him for the use or benefit of another for a number of years or during the life of such other, the trustee, or if any land shall be held by any surviving spouse as a homestead, then the surviving spouse and adult heirs, shall be deemed and held to be the owner of such land within the meaning of this section.