140.420. Deed to purchaser if unredeemed. - Missouri Statutes

Deed to purchaser if unredeemed.

140.420. If no person shall redeem the lands sold for taxes withinone year from the sale, at the expiration thereof, and on production ofcertificate of purchase, the collector of the county in which the sale ofsuch lands took place shall execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns,in the name of the state, a conveyance of the real estate so sold, whichshall vest in the grantee an absolute estate in fee simple, subject,however, to all claims thereon for unpaid taxes except such unpaid taxesexisting at time of the purchase of said lands and the lien for which taxeswas inferior to the lien for taxes for which said tract or lot of land wassold.

(RSMo 1939 § 11149, A.L. 2003 S.B. 295)