Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 442

Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate

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Section 442.210.1

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August 28, 2015

Certificate of acknowledgment--contents.

442.210. 1. The certificate of acknowledgment shall state the act of

acknowledgment, and that the person making the same was personally known to

at least one judge of the court, or to the officer granting the certificate,

to be the person whose name is subscribed to the instrument as a party

thereto, or was proved to be such by at least two witnesses, whose names and

places of residence shall be inserted in the certificate; and the following

forms of acknowledgment may be used in the case of conveyances or other

written instruments affecting real estate; and any acknowledgment so taken

and certificate shall be sufficient to satisfy all requirements of law

relating to the execution or recording of such instruments (begin in all

cases by a caption, specifying the state and place where the acknowledgment

is taken):



(1) In case of natural persons acting in their own right



On this ... day of ..., 20.., before me personally appeared A B (or A B

and C D), to me known to be the person (or persons) described in and who

executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he (or they)

executed the same as his (or their) free act and deed.



(2) In the case of natural persons acting by attorney



On this ... day of ..., 20.., before me personally appeared A B, to me

known to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument in behalf of C

D, and acknowledged that he executed the same as the free act and deed of C D.



(3) In the case of corporations or joint stock associations



On this ... day of ..., 20.., before me appeared A B, to me personally

known, who, being by me duly sworn (or affirmed) did say that he is the

president (or other officer or agent of the corporation or association), of

(describing the corporation or association), and that the seal affixed to

foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation (or

association), and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of

said corporation (or association) by authority of its board of directors (or

trustees), and said A B acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and

deed of said corporation (or association).



2. In case the corporation or association has no corporate seal, omit the

words "the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said

corporation (or association), and that", and add at the end of the affidavit

clause the words "and that said corporation (or association) has no corporate

seal".



3. (In all cases add signature and title of the officer taking the

acknowledgment.)



4. When a married woman unites with her husband in the execution of any

such instrument, and acknowledges the same in one of the forms above

sanctioned, she shall be described in the acknowledgment as his wife, but in

all other respects her acknowledgment shall be taken and certified as if she

were sole; and no separate examination of a married woman in respect to the

execution of any release or dower, or other instrument affecting real estate,

shall be required.



(RSMo 1939 § 3416)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 3029; 1919 § 2188; 1909 § 2799







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