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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 442.410

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

And in case any person or persons may have any deed or deeds or other instrument of writing, the record of which is lost or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds, upon the request of such person or persons, to record such deed or deeds or other instrument of writing, together with all certificates and endorsements thereon, or thereto attached, and forming a part thereof; provided, such recorder shall receive the same fees for recording such deed, decree or other instrument of writing as is now provided by law.