§ 59.003 Requests for records dated after December 31, 1969 to be made at original ..
§ 59.005 Definitions
§ 59.010 Office created
§ 59.020 Election — term of office (first, second and third class counties)
§ 59.021 Qualifications when offices of clerk of the court and recorder of deeds are ..
§ 59.022 Vacancy when offices of clerk of the court and recorder of deeds are ..
§ 59.041 Separation of offices of circuit clerk and recorder of deeds (certain ..
§ 59.042 Vote required to separate offices of circuit court clerk and recorder of ..
§ 59.043 Circuit court clerk elected, when
§ 59.044 Certain recorders to be paid statutory compensation
§ 59.080 Failure to give bond — penalty
§ 59.090 Circuit clerk to be ex officio recorder, exceptions (fourth class counties)
§ 59.100 Bond
§ 59.110 Bond of clerk — deposited, recorded (fourth class counties)
§ 59.120 Place of office — record books
§ 59.130 Seal
§ 59.140 Seal used by ex officio recorder
§ 59.150 Administration of oaths
§ 59.160 Office hours, cities of 300,000 or more population
§ 59.163 Instruments where recorded or filed in counties of first class having two ..
§ 59.167 Abstract of instruments in branch offices not required to be kept (first ..
§ 59.170 Branch of Jackson County recorder’s office in Kansas City — recording of ..
§ 59.180 County commission to provide office and supplies
§ 59.200 Recorder or deputy prohibited from making abstracts of title — penalty
§ 59.210 Accounts audited and settled by county commission
§ 59.220 Compensation of recorder of deeds (St. Louis City)
§ 59.227 Fees, record of and disposition of (certain first class counties)
§ 59.230 Fees received — reports — deposited where (second class counties)
§ 59.240 Fees to be collected — affidavit required — report, contents of (second ..
§ 59.245 Record of conveyances to county assessor (second class and certain first ..
§ 59.250 Accounting of fees collected — annual report — moneys collected property of ..
§ 59.255 Marginal release of deeds of trust book kept, certain counties
§ 59.257 Deputy recorders — appointment — qualifications — certain counties
§ 59.260 Circuit clerk to collect and report fees as recorder, when
§ 59.270 Deputies — compensation (certain first class counties)
§ 59.290 Deputies — appointment — qualifications — compensation (second class counties)
§ 59.300 Deputies, counties wherein clerk is ex officio recorder — appointment — ..
§ 59.310 Documents for recording — page, defined — size of type or print — signature ..
§ 59.313 Recorder’s fees (St. Louis City) — page, defined — size of type or print — ..
§ 59.318 Donation for homeless, recording of certain instruments (Jackson County)
§ 59.319 User fee and an additional fee required to record — collection, deposit, ..
§ 59.320 Fee to be paid before record made, exceptions
§ 59.321 One dollar filing fee required, used for county employees’ retirement ..
§ 59.330 What shall be recorded — legal description required, when — validity
§ 59.331 Certain personal identifying information not to be included in certain ..
§ 59.332 Redaction or removal of sensitive personal identifying information ..
§ 59.335 Bankruptcy, certified copies of papers to be recorded — fees
§ 59.340 Records to be recorded in separate books by classes
§ 59.350 Conveyances of personal property recorded, how
§ 59.380 Land patents recorded
§ 59.390 Copies of land patents received in evidence
§ 59.400 Manner of recording
§ 59.410 Photographic copies deemed recording — to be bound
§ 59.420 Manner of recording (first class counties and certain cities)
§ 59.430 Certificate on instrument recorded
§ 59.440 Abstract and index of deeds
§ 59.450 Index to marriage contracts and certificates
§ 59.460 Index to officers’ commissions and bonds
§ 59.470 Index to instruments on file
§ 59.480 Recording of discharges from Armed Forces — definitions — duties of ..
§ 59.510 Certified copy of deeds for land in different counties to be recorded, when
§ 59.520 Certified copy of record notice to purchasers
§ 59.530 Force and effect of certified copy
§ 59.540 United States land patents
§ 59.550 United States land patents — duties of recorders
§ 59.560 New abstract and index of deeds, when made — fee
§ 59.563 Electronic format for documents may be established
§ 59.565 Electronically transmitted signature valid, when
§ 59.567 Fees, collection procedure
§ 59.568 Electronic records, requirements for certain documents
§ 59.569 Electronic documents with electronic signatures, permissible, when — ..
§ 59.570 Records rebound, when
§ 59.580 Records transcribed, when
§ 59.590 New record books — designation — certification — validity
§ 59.605 Recorder to furnish assessor with list of mortgages and deeds of trust ..
§ 59.610 Rerecording of conveyances — when — by whom
§ 59.620 Rerecording — free of charge, when
§ 59.630 Compensation for rerecording copyist
§ 59.640 Rerecorded conveyances admissible in evidence
§ 59.650 Neglect of duty — liability
§ 59.660 Neglect of duty — penalty
§ 59.700 Waiver of state’s rights of reverter in certain property (Scott County)
§ 59.800 Additional five dollar fee imposed, when, distribution — fund established, ..
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws > Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds

  • 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.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • 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.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Duplicate: copies, copies requested concurrently with, but in excess of one reproduction in any medium of a recorded instrument or document or collection thereof. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Executor: includes administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • 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
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • General election: means the election required to be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, biennially. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • 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.
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day when the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • instrument: any writing or drawing presented to the recorder of deeds for recording. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Legal description: includes but is not limited to the lot or parts thereof, block, plat or replat number, plat book and page and the name of any recorded plat or a metes and bounds description with acreage, if stated in the description, or the quarter/quarter section, and the section, township and range of property, or any combination thereof. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • Legible: all text, seals, drawings, signatures or other content within the document must be capable of producing a clear and readable image from record, regardless of the process used for recording. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Page: any writing, printing or drawing printed on one side only covering all or part of the page, not larger than eight and one-half inches in width and eleven inches in height for pages other than a plat or survey. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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
  • reproducing: any recorded instrument or document, the act of making a single reproduction in any medium of a recorded document or instrument. 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • voter: is used in the laws of this state it shall mean registered voter, or legal voter. See Missouri Laws 1.035