Title XXXIII — EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS

490.010. Printed statute books, evidence. — The printed statute books of this state, printed under its authority, shall be evidence of the private acts therein contained. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1812) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1648; 1919 § 5335; 1909 § 6280

490.020. Printed statutes of other states to be received in evidence. — Printed books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of any of the United States, or the territories thereof, or of any foreign jurisdiction, and to have been printed and pu…

490.030. Certified statute book of other states, evidence, when. — Copies of any act, law, resolution or constitution, contained in any printed statute book of a sister state or territory, shall be received in any of the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the act, la…

490.040. Books containing acts of Congress. — The printed books containing the acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be published by authority of congress, or by authority of the United States, shall be evidence of the laws, public or private, general, local or…

490.050. Printed federal acts received in evidence, when. — Copies of any act, law or resolution contained in any such book, now or hereafter deposited in the office of the secretary of state, certified under the hand and official seal of said secretary, shall be received in evid…

490.060. Printed reports of other states, evidence. — The printed books of cases adjudged in the courts of a sister state may be admitted as evidence of the unwritten or common law of such state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1865) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1701; 1919 § 5388; 1909 § 6332…

490.065. Expert witness, opinion testimony admissible, requirements for certain actions. — 1. In actions brought under chapter 451, 452, 453, 454, or 455 or in actions adjudicated in juvenile courts under chapter 211 or in family courts under chapter 487, or in all proceedings be…

490.070. Short title. — Sections 490.070 to 490.120 may be cited as "The Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act". ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 1)

490.080. Judicial notice to be taken. — Every court of this state shall take judicial notice of the common law and statutes of every state, territory and other jurisdiction of the United States. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 2) CROSS REFERENCE: Foreign law, judicial notice taken, …

490.090. Court may inform itself of laws. — The court may inform itself of such laws in such manner as it may deem proper, and the court may call upon counsel to aid it in obtaining such information. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 3)

490.100. Determination of laws. — The determination of such laws shall be made by the court and not by the jury, and shall be reviewable. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 4)

490.110. Presentation of laws to trial court. — Any party may also present to the trial court any admissible evidence of such laws, but, to enable a party to offer evidence of the law in another jurisdiction or to ask that judicial notice be taken thereof, reasonable notice shall…

490.120. What law to be issue for the court. — The law of a jurisdiction other than those referred to in section 490.080 shall be an issue for the court, but shall not be subject to the foregoing provisions concerning judicial notice. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 318 § 6)

490.130. Certified records of courts to be evidence. — The records of judicial proceedings of any court of the United States, or of any state, attested by the clerk thereof, with the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, and certified by the judge, chief justice or presi…

490.140. Justice court records, evidence, when. — Where the docket, files, books and papers of a justice of the peace shall have been delivered to a clerk of the county commission according to law, copies of such docket, files, books or papers, certified by such clerk, shall be e…

490.150. Public documents edited by authority of Congress. — Public documents, purporting to be edited or printed by authority of congress, or either house thereof, shall be evidence to the same extent that authenticated copies of the same would be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1818) …

490.160. Printed journals of senate and house of this state. — The printed journal of the senate and house of representatives of this state, and all public documents or reports therein contained, and all reports or documents printed by the order of this state, or by either house …

490.170. Printing authority to be stated. — There shall be inserted on the title page of all books and documents printed by state officials, a statement showing by what authority the same are printed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1820, A. 1949 S.B. 1148) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1656; …

490.180. Certified copies of certain official records. — Copies of all papers on file in the office of the secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and register of lands, or of any matter recorded in either of said offices, certified under the seal of the respective off…

490.190. Certified copies in offices of auditor and treasurer. — Copies of all papers and documents lawfully deposited in the office either of the treasurer or auditor of the state, when certified by such officer and authenticated by the seal of office, shall be received in evide…

490.200. Copies from United States land offices. — Copies of any entry or entries, or memoranda, made on the books of the office of any register or receiver of any United States land office, certified by the said register or receiver to be correct, shall be received in evidence i…

490.210. Copies of letters received by register of land office. — Copies of any letter or letters received by the register or receiver of any land office, as aforesaid, from any superior officer in the land department of the United States, concerning the official action of the sa…

490.220. Office records of the United States or sister state. — All records and exemplifications of office books, kept in any public office of the United States, or of a sister state, not appertaining to a court, shall be evidence in this state, if attested by the keeper of said …

490.230. Exemplification by President and others. — Exemplifications from the books of the executive department of the United States, or any papers filed therein, shall be evidence when attested by the President or the chief of either of the departments, or from any state or terr…

490.235. Printed copies of utility tariffs, evidence, when. — Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs of rates, fares and charges, and supplements thereto, filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission or the public service commission, which show respectively an …

490.240. Records of cities and towns. — Printed copies of the ordinances, resolutions, rules, orders and bylaws of any city or incorporated town in this state, purporting to be published by authority of such city or incorporated town, and manuscript or printed copies of such ordi…

490.250. Records of corporations and financial institutions. — 1. Copies of all records and papers on file in the office of any company incorporated under the general or special laws of this state, when certified by the secretary or president, and authenticated by the seal of sai…

490.260. Records of religious societies. — When, by the ordinance or custom of any religious society or congregation in this state, a register is required to be kept of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths or interments, such register shall be admitted as evidence. ­­-------- (RSM…

490.270. Certified copies of religious records. — Copies of the register referred to in section 490.260, certified by the pastor or other head of any such society or congregation, or by the clerk or other keeper of such register, and verified by his affidavit in writing, shall be…

490.280. Instruments under repealed law. — Every instrument of writing conveying or affecting real estate, and the certificate of the acknowledgment or proof thereof, made in pursuance of any law in force at the time of such acknowledgment or proof, but afterward repealed, shall …

490.290. Deed acknowledged under former law. — Any deed or conveyance, duly acknowledged or proved and recorded, according to any law in force at the time of taking such acknowledgment or proof, although not declared by such law to be evidence, shall be received in evidence, if i…

490.300. Deed, evidence upon proof of certain facts. — Such deed or conveyance, acknowledged or proved and recorded, according to law, though not recorded within one year from the date thereof, or twenty years before it is offered, may be read in evidence, upon proof of such fact…

490.310. Original deed lost — certified copy of deed, evidence when. — Whenever it shall appear that the original deed or conveyance in any of the cases specified in sections 490.280 to 490.300 has been lost or destroyed, or is not in the power of the party who wishes to use it, …

490.320. Copy of deed, when evidence. — When any deed or conveyance affecting real estate has been recorded more than twenty years, and has not been proved or acknowledged, according to law, when so recorded, but has been subsequently duly proved, and read upon the trial of any l…

490.330. Evidence offered to reject such copy. — Whenever any deed, conveyance or other evidence of title, or a copy thereof, shall be offered in evidence, under the provisions of any of the preceding sections, and objected to, the party objecting may introduce evidence to show t…

490.340. Certain recorded instruments to impart notice, when. — All records heretofore or hereafter made by the recorder of any county by copying from any instrument in writing or copy thereof affecting real estate at law or in equity, which instrument or copy is not entitled to …

490.350. Copies of recorded instruments. — Certified copies of such records as are contemplated in section 490.340 shall not be received in evidence until the execution of the original instrument or instruments from which such records are made has been duly proved according to la…

490.360. Evidence of execution of real estate instrument. — Whenever the records in the recorder's office of deeds of any county shall contain a record of any writing, instrument or deed, purporting to affect any real estate, or any right or interest in or to the same, and such r…

490.370. Recitals in deeds, evidence of heirship in certain cases. — In any deed conveying real estate heretofore or hereafter made, by any person or persons claiming to be the heir or heirs of some other person, if a recital shall have been or shall be made in said deed, showing…

490.380. Deeds recorded thirty years before 1874. — All deeds, conveyances, powers of attorney, or other instruments in writing under seal, purporting to convey any land, or any estate or interest therein, or whereby the same may be affected in law or equity, executed and acknowl…

490.390. Copies evidence when original lost. — Copies of the record of such instruments, and of the certificates of acknowledgment or proof thereof, duly certified by the recorder of the county in which the same may have been recorded as aforesaid, when it shall be shown to the c…

490.400. Sheriff's deed in tax sale, evidence of what. — All deeds heretofore executed, or that may hereafter be executed, by any sheriff to a purchaser of land sold for delinquent and back taxes, shall be prima facie evidence that the persons named therein as defendants in the s…

490.410. Acknowledged instruments affecting realty. — Every instrument in writing, conveying or affecting real estate, which shall be acknowledged or proved, and certified as herein prescribed, may, together with the certificates of acknowledgment or proof, and relinquishment, be…

490.420. Certified copy thereof read in evidence. — Where any such instrument is acknowledged or proved, certified and recorded, in the manner herein prescribed, and it shall be shown to the court by the oath or affidavit of the party wishing to use the same, or of anyone knowing…

490.430. Shall not be conclusive evidence, when. — Neither the certificate of the acknowledgment nor the proof of any such instrument nor the record nor the transcript of the record of such instrument, shall be conclusive, but the same may be rebutted. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 343…

490.440. Shall not be received in evidence until. — If the party contesting the proof of any such instrument shall make it appear that such proof was taken upon the oath of an incompetent witness, neither such instrument nor the record thereof shall be received in evidence until …

490.450. Error in name. — All deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust and other instruments conveying or affecting title to real estate where the Christian names of the grantees therein, or the parties of the second part, are abbreviated by using the initials thereof, or any abbreviatio…

490.460. Copies of public contracts. — Copies of contracts entered into by individuals with the state, or any officer thereof, or with any county, or with any person for the benefit of any county, under or by authority of any law, or the lawful order of any court, the originals o…

490.470. Copies of official bonds. — Copies of all bonds required by law to be given by sheriffs, collectors, county treasurers, collectors of the revenue, clerks of the supreme court, districts of the court of appeals, circuit and county commissions, recorders, and all other off…

490.480. Copies of bonds of administrators and others. — Copies of all bonds required by law to be given by executors, administrators, personal representatives, guardians, conservators and commissioners, for the faithful discharge of their duties as such, and the bonds of princip…