490.340. Certain recorded instruments to impart notice, when. - Missouri Statutes

Certain recorded instruments to impart notice, when.

490.340. All records heretofore or hereafter made by therecorder of any county by copying from any instrument in writingor copy thereof affecting real estate at law or in equity, whichinstrument or copy is not entitled to be recorded because it isnot certified or is defectively certified, shall from the datethis section takes effect, or one year after the recordedinstrument or copy is filed with the recorder for record,whichever date is later, impart notice of the contents thereof inthe same manner and to the same extent as would an identicalrecorded instrument or copy which is duly certified. Thecertification referred to in this section includes not onlycertification of proof or acknowledgment, or other certification,but also verification, authentication, attestation, or any othercondition precedent to recording made by law.

(RSMo 1939 § 1845, A.L. 1959 S.B. 113)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1681; 1919 § 5368; 1909 § 6313

(1956) History of section discussed statute held inapplicable to recordation after last reenactment in 1939. Hatcher v. Hall (A.), 292 S.W.2d 619.