Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.170

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Record: "recorded" or "recording", the recording of a document into the official public record, regardless of the process used. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • Recorder of deeds: the separate recorder of deeds in those counties where separate from the circuit clerk and the circuit clerk and ex officio recorder of deeds in those counties where the offices are combined. See Missouri Laws 59.005

The recorder of deeds for Jackson County, Missouri, shall open an office at Kansas City, in which may be recorded deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages and other instruments affecting real property situated in that county, and in which may be filed or filed for record all financing statements and other instruments or statements incidental thereto affecting personal property, fixtures, or other collateral. Deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, and other instruments affecting real property, and financing statements and other instruments incidental thereto affecting personal property, fixtures, or other collateral may also be recorded or filed for record at the recorder’s office located at the county seat of any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants.