Missouri Laws 59.540 – United States land patents
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.540
- File: "filed" or "filing", the act of delivering or transmitting a document to the recorder of deeds for recording into the official public record. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- 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
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
It shall be the duty of the register of the United States land office of the state of Missouri, and he is hereby required, immediately after this section shall take effect, to forward by some convenient and safe means to the recorder of deeds in the various counties, and in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, all government land patents now on file or which may hereafter be filed in said office, affecting the title to any real estate in said counties or city, noting on the records of said office the disposition of such patents and the date when the same was forwarded.