Title XXIX, OWNERSHIP AND CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY

445.020. Plat, how drawn — shall show what. — Every plat hereafter constructed, which is authorized or required by law to be recorded, or intended to form part of any proceedings for the partition of real estate, shall be drawn to a scale, the scale to be noted on the plat, have …

445.030. Plat to be acknowledged and recorded — acceptance by city. — Such map or plat shall be acknowledged by the proprietor before some official authorized by law to take acknowledgments of conveyances of real estate, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the …

445.040. Duty of recorder when plat delivered — certified copies to be evidence. — 1. It shall also be the duty of the recorder to record all plats delivered to him for record, in a book to be called a "plat book", and, when necessary to preserve uniformity, he shall reduce the s…

445.050. When new county established or county lines changed, plat to be recorded, where. — When any such maps or plats shall be recorded, and by reason of the establishment of any new county, or the alteration of any new county lines, the city, town or village shall fall within …

445.060. Legalizing any plat of city or town, or addition or subdivision, after having been recorded for ten years — to be received in all courts of state. — Any recorded plat or plan of any town or city, and of any addition thereto or subdivision thereof, or/and any recorded sur…

445.070. Penalty for selling lots before plat recorded — plat shall vest fee, when. — 1. If any person shall sell or offer for sale any lot within any city, town or village, or any addition thereto, before the plat thereof be made out, acknowledged and recorded, as aforesaid, suc…

445.080. Penalty for recording an imperfect plat. — If any person, his agent or attorney, shall cause a map or plat of any such city, town, village or addition thereto to be recorded, which does not set forth and describe all parcels of ground which have been or shall be promised…

445.090. Persons incurring penalty may be proceeded against, how. — The property and effects of the person incurring such forfeiture may be proceeded against, by attachment or otherwise, in like manner and for the like causes as in ordinary cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12811) P…

445.100. Plans, plats or replats — unlawful to receive or record such plan unless approved (cities of 400,000). — 1. In all cities that now have or hereafter may have four hundred thousand inhabitants or over, all plans, plats or replats of land laid out in building lots and stre…

445.110. Unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey unless plan, plat or replat shall have been recorded (cities of 400,000). — In all cities that now have or hereafter may have four hundred thousand inhabitants or over, it shall be unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey or…

445.120. Penalty for violation of certain provisions. — Any person violating the provisions of sections 445.100 to 445.120 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment n…

446.010. Decayed corners — surveyed when. — Any person, his agent or attorney, owning or being interested in any tract of land within this state, any corner or corners of which shall be in a decayed or perishable condition, may require the surveyor of the county to make a survey …

446.020. Surveyor's notes — contents. — Such surveyor shall note particularly in his field notes the corner from which he starts the survey and to which he traces the lines, noting the condition of the corner trees, if any, marking particularly every object of note, over or by wh…

446.030. Surveyor — duties — fees. — He shall cause to be planted, by the person requiring such survey, at each corner desired to be established, a stone or post, and shall mark and describe witness trees, if within a reasonable distance, noting in his field notes the course and …

446.040. Destroyed corners, how established. — When the corner or corners of any survey shall have been destroyed or obliterated by time or accident, the owner of such survey, or of any other lands, the title of which may be affected by the loss of any such corner, or if the corn…

446.050. Attendance of surveyor and witnesses — judge's duty. — Such judge shall, upon application, issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county to cause to come before him, at a place on the land and on a day to be designated in the warrant, the county surveyor and such witnes…

446.060. Examination of witnesses. — Such judge shall, on the day appointed, proceed to the place designated, and there, in the presence of the county surveyor, examine the witnesses summoned, and others attending, touching the existence or situation of such destroyed or oblitera…

446.070. Adjournment. — Such judge shall have power to adjourn from day to day, when the same may be necessary to the accomplishment of the examination. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1977, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1813; 1919 § 5500; 1909 § 6443 Ef…

446.080. Examination reduced to writing. — Such judge shall reduce the examination of the witnesses to writing, which shall be signed and sworn to by the deponents, and, being certified and signed by the judge, shall be by him delivered to the county surveyor. ­­-------- (RSMo 19…

446.090. Notice to take depositions, how given. — The party applying for the establishment of any corner or corners shall give notice, in writing, of the time and place of taking such depositions, to every person or persons who may be the owner of any interest in the lands adjoin…

446.100. Evidence of notice. — Satisfactory evidence of such notice shall be required by the judge before he proceeds to take such depositions, which shall appear in his certificate annexed to the depositions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1980, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) …

446.110. Surveyors to re-mark decayed corners, when. — The county surveyor shall, if required by the party owning or being interested in such survey make a survey thereof, and cause to be planted a stone or post at each of the decayed or obliterated corners, and shall be governed…

446.120. Plat and certificate of survey. — Such surveyor shall make out a plat and certificate of such survey, noting therein the corners at which he shall have planted stones or posts, the names of the chainmen, markers and others present at the planting of the same, and that th…

446.130. Plat and certificate recorded. — He shall record such plat and certificate in a book to be by him kept and provided for that purpose, and shall deliver the original, with any depositions delivered to him, duly certified, to the recorder of the county. ­­-------- (RSMo 19…

446.140. Duty of recorder. — The recorder to whom such plats and certificates and depositions shall be delivered shall record the same in a book to be by him provided and kept for that purpose, and shall deliver the original to him at whose instance the survey was made. ­­-------…

446.150. Plats, certificates and depositions in evidence. — Plats and certificates of surveys and depositions to establish corners, or certified copies of the record thereof, when the same shall have been made or taken in conformity to the provisions of sections 446.010 to 446.18…

446.160. Examination of witness through interpreter. — When any witness examined under sections 446.010 to 446.180 cannot clearly understand and speak the English language, his examination shall be made through a competent interpreter, duly sworn correctly to translate into his l…

446.170. Costs, how paid. — All fees and costs attending the proceedings under sections 446.010 to 446.170 shall, in the first instance, be paid by the party on whose application the same shall be had, who may recover from persons who shall use or be benefitted by the same their …

446.175. Land patent not issued by state, owner may acquire, requirements. — 1. Any person owning land for which a patent should have been issued by the state but was not may acquire a patent for such land by: (1) Proving, by affidavits or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the se…

446.180. Erroneous descriptions in patents — correction. — 1. Whenever an error has been made in the description of land in any patent, the person to whom such patent was issued, or any person who has acquired title to the land intended to be described in such erroneous patent by…

446.190. Lost or destroyed records — replacement — evidentiary effect. — 1. In all of the counties of this state in which, at any time heretofore, the official records and records affecting the title to real estate therein, shall have been, by fire, war or other catastrophe, lost…

446.200. Certificate of judges entered of record — received in evidence. — 1. The certificate provided for by section 446.190 to be made and filed by the said judges of the circuit court and the commissioners of the county commission, or by the judges of the circuit court of the …

446.210. Abstract of title to lands received in evidence, when. — In all cases, and in all suits, trials and actions, in any of the courts of this state, and in any of the courts held within this state, in any proceeding relating to, or affecting the title to lands, or any intere…

446.220. Fees allowed to owners of abstracts. — The owner, owners, keeper or custodian of any such abstracts or land title abstract books shall be allowed to charge for the services rendered under the provisions of sections 446.190 to 446.220 the following fees only: ­ ­ ­­------…

446.230. Certain titles confirmed. — Whenever the title in fee to any lands shall be vested in the state of Missouri, under the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to vest in the several states and territories the title in fee of the lands which have been or may be …

446.240. Duty of register of lands, evidence. — The register of lands shall procure suitable books and record therein all letters and instructions received from the land department at Washington concerning lands granted to this state, and shall also record in such books all lists…

446.250. New Madrid certificates and patents prima facie evidence. — When, in any action for the recovery of the possession of premises, any land shall be claimed by virtue of a location in lieu of other lands injured by earthquakes, the certificate of new location granted by the…

446.260. Rebutted, how. — It shall be lawful for the adverse party to rebut such evidence by proof that the grantee in such certificate or patent named was not, at the time the same or either of them issued, the owner of the injured lands in lieu of which the said certificate or …

446.270. New Madrid certificates. — Copies of certificates granted by the recorder of land titles, under the act of Congress for the relief of the sufferers by earthquakes in the county of New Madrid, and all other books and papers, which by law are required to be deposited or ke…

446.280. Confirmations of land titles — copies. — Copies of confirmations had before the board of commissioners for the adjustment of land claims within this state, or before the recorder of land titles, duly certified by the recorder of land titles, or by the person who shall by…

446.290. French and Spanish grants. — All grants and concessions of land, all warrants, orders, plats and certificates of survey made and signed by the proper officers of the French or Spanish government, which shall have been filed in the office of the recorder of land titles, b…

446.300. Copies from Livre Terrein. — Copies of all petitions, grants, orders and returns of survey, and other evidences of title, contained in any land book, commonly called Livre Terrein, and copies of all such other records of the French or Spanish government, and of such evid…

446.310. French and Spanish archives, evidence. — When any such conveyance or other evidences of title, as mentioned in section 446.290 shall have belonged to the archives of the French or Spanish government, and shall have been deposited in the office of the recorder of any coun…

446.320. French and Spanish archives, copies of. — A copy of any such conveyance or evidence of title, among the archives of the French or Spanish government, deposited in pursuance of law, in the office of the recorder of any county, and therein recorded, and a copy of any recor…

446.330. Copies of record of original archives. — Whenever it shall appear that the original of any of the records, archives or other evidences mentioned in sections 446.290 to 446.320, after having been deposited and recorded in the office of the recorder of land titles, or of t…

446.340. Archives of recorder's office of St. Louis, evidence. — Certified copies of the records of the ancient archives deposited in the office of the recorder of the county or city of St. Louis, consisting of deeds, mortgages, marriage contracts, settlements, adjudications and …