Missouri Laws 59.470 – Index to instruments on file
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.470
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Executor: includes administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- grantee: the names of the parties involved in the transaction used to create the recording index. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- instrument: any writing or drawing presented to the recorder of deeds for recording. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
- 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
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
When any instrument of writing conveying or affecting real estate authorized by law to be recorded shall be filed in the recorder’s office for record, the recorder shall enter the same in the names of the grantors and grantees in both parts of the abstract and index of deeds, filling each appropriate column with the several items contained in such instrument in alphabetical order, in the names of the grantors and grantees; and if the instrument be made by the sheriff, in the name of the sheriff, and the defendant in the execution, or of the person whose land is sold, and of the grantee; and if made by an executor or administrator, in the name of the executor or administrator, and of the testator or intestate, and of the grantee; and if by attorney, in the name of such attorney and of his constituent and of the grantee; and if by a commissioner, in the name of such commissioner, and of the person whose land is sold, and of the grantee.