Terms Used In Missouri Laws 490.380

  • 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.
  • 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

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 acknowledged in conformity with the provisions of any law in force in this state, or in the district or territory of Louisiana, or in the territory of Missouri, at the time of its execution and acknowledgment, and which deed has been duly recorded in the proper office more than thirty years before March 28, 1874, shall, together with the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, be received in evidence in all the courts of this state without further proof of the execution thereof.