Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.430

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • instrument: any writing or drawing presented to the recorder of deeds for recording. See Missouri Laws 59.005
  • Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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

The recorder shall certify, on or under such deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, commission or other instrument, so recorded, the day and time of the day, month and year, when he received it, and the book and page or pages of the book in which it is recorded, and, when recorded, deliver it to the party or his order.