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422.270 Action to supply lost record.
When any written instrument, authorized by law to be recorded, has been so
recorded, and the book containing it has been lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced,
and there is not in existence a copy of such writing known to the person claiming
under it, such person may institute a suit in equity, in the county where such
instrument was recorded, against the grantors or obligors in the writing, or his heirs
or personal representatives, setting forth the fact of the existence of such writing,
and the destruction of the record. Upon hearing, the court may render judgment that
the defendants make and execute another writing in lieu of the original, of the same
tenor and effect. Upon the failure of the defendants to execute a new writing within a
reasonable time, the court shall cause the same to be executed by a commissioner,
which shall vest in plaintiff all the rights vested in him by the original writing. If the
recorded instrument be a conveyance for land, the plaintiff may make defendants
any or all who have had title to the land for fifteen (15) years preceding the institution
of the suit. No judgment for costs shall be rendered against the defendants unless
they make defense and fail therein, except that, if they fail to convey or execute a
new writing when adjudged to do so by the court, they shall, if adults, pay the cost of
making the writing by a commissioner.
Effective:October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from
Ky. Stat. sec. 4000.
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