140.180. Lawful abbreviations.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

140.180. Lawful abbreviations.

Lawful abbreviations.

140.180. 1. In all advertisements, notices, lists, records,certificates, deeds or other papers, required to be made by orunder any of the provisions of this chapter, it shall be lawfulto use letters, figures and characters, as follows:

(1) Letters may be used to denote township, range,boundaries, parts of section, parts of lots or blocks, or othersubdivisions of real estate, in the following manner: "T" fortownship, "R" for range, "L" for lot, "B" for block, "N" fornorth, "E" for east, "S" for south and "W" for west, or anycombination or combinations of the four last mentioned letters todenote parts of sections, lots, blocks, or other subdivisions ofreal property;

(2) Figures may be used as may be requisite to state anynumber required, whether it be of township, range, survey,section, block, lot or part thereof, acres or fractions thereof,date of any kind, amount of taxes, interest or costs, or anyother matter or thing which may be stated or given in figures;

(3) Characters, such as ("), or the words "do", or "ditto",or "same", may be used to denote continuation of township, range,years, tax due or other dates and when either shall be so used,shall be deemed and held to denote the same as shall stand nextabove in the column in which any such character or word shall beso placed.

2. Any and all descriptions of real estate made under theprovisions of this chapter by the use of letters, figures andcharacters, as provided in this section, when so made that theland or lot may be identified and located, shall be deemed andheld to be good, valid and complete, as though the same had beenwritten out in full.

3. Dates of valuation and taxation, taxes, interest, costs,acres, blocks or lots, or any fractions thereof, or any othernumber or amount, when stated in figures, letters or characters,as herein provided, shall be deemed and held to be fully andfairly stated, as though the same had been written out in full.