Missouri Laws 59.335 – Bankruptcy, certified copies of papers to be recorded — fees
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.335
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- grantee: the names of the parties involved in the transaction used to create the recording index. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- Record: "recorded" or "recording", the recording of a document into the official public record, regardless of the process used. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- Recorder of deeds: the separate recorder of deeds in those counties where separate from the circuit clerk and the circuit clerk and ex officio recorder of deeds in those counties where the offices are combined. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
Any recorder of deeds shall receive for record and record any certified copy of any matter in reference to bankruptcy which any act of Congress of the United States may provide for as being necessary to be filed in the county or counties wherein lands of a bankrupt are situated in order to be notice of said bankruptcy. Such certified copy shall be recorded in the record of deeds and indexed in the general index of deeds in the name of the bankrupt, as grantor, and in the name of the trustee in bankruptcy or receiver, if any, as grantee. The recorder of deeds shall charge and collect the same fee for recording such certified copy as is provided by law for recording a deed of the same length.