When any record of judgments or executions, or any allowances or orders of any probate division of the circuit court or county commission, or any inventory, sale bill or appraisement or other document or paper filed or being in any court of record shall have been mutilated, lost or destroyed, stolen or carried away, any person interested in any such record or paper, or his or her agent or attorney may make out a statement in writing, verified by affidavit, setting out as near as may be the full contents of said lost, mutilated or destroyed record or paper, and file the same in the clerk's office wherein said lost, mutilated or destroyed records belonged.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 109.160
Statement and affidavit when record lost or destroyed
Known as the The State and Local Records Law
The act spans §§ 109–109 (44 sections).
Effective: 02 Jan 1979, see footnote; (RSMo 1939 § 3639, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634); Prior revisions: 1929 § 3249; 1919 § 10611; 1909 § 10422
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.