2022 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements
Chapter 490 - Evidence
Section 490.420 - Certified copy thereof read in evidence.
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
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 the fact, that such instrument is lost, or not within the power of the party wishing to use the same, the record thereof, or the transcript of such record, certified by the recorder under the seal of his office, may be read in evidence, without further proof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3436)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3049; 1919 § 2208; 1909 § 2819
CROSS REFERENCE:
Conveyances of bounty lands--record or certified copy to be evidence, when, 442.250
