Terms Used In Missouri Laws 26.050

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • 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

Whenever any property is bid off by him for the state, he shall have the power to sell the same to any person or persons desiring to buy the same from the state, on such terms and conditions as he may think wise and conducive to the best interests of the state, and on behalf of the state, to execute proper deeds therefor to the purchaser or purchasers. Such deed or deeds executed by him shall be countersigned by the secretary of state, and have thereto attached the great seal of the state, and shall be by him duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds.