Terms Used In Missouri Laws 490.300

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

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 facts and circumstances as, together with the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, shall satisfy the court that the person who executed the instrument is the person therein named as grantor.