Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.255

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Page: any writing, printing or drawing printed on one side only covering all or part of the page, not larger than eight and one-half inches in width and eleven inches in height for pages other than a plat or survey. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • 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 in each county wherein the offices of circuit clerk and recorder of deeds are separate and the circuit clerk and ex officio recorder of deeds in each county wherein the offices are combined shall keep in his or her office a record known as the “Marginal Release of Deeds of Trust” in which was recorded, at the time of the execution of a marginal release of a deed of trust, executed prior to August 28, 1991, the names of the grantors and grantees, the book and page of release, the date of release and to whom delivered.