Missouri Laws 59.200 – Recorder or deputy prohibited from making abstracts of title — penalty
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.200
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- instrument: any writing or drawing presented to the recorder of deeds for recording. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- 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
Every recorder of deeds or the deputy of any such officer, who shall engage in the business of making abstracts of instruments of record in his office affecting the title to lands, for profit or hire, or who shall furnish to any person or persons any written extract, excerpt, memoranda or copy of any such instrument of record, for profit or hire, otherwise than under and in pursuance of the statutes defining his duties as such officer and in his official capacity, duly authenticating each extract, excerpt, memoranda or copy of every such instrument so furnished under the seal of his office, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars.