Every such instrument in writing, certified and recorded in the manner herein prescribed, shall, from time of filing the same with the recorder for record, impart notice to all persons of the contents thereof and all subsequent purchasers and mortgagees shall be deemed, in law and equity, to purchase with notice.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 442.390
Notice imparted from time of filing for record
Known as the Private Landowner Protection Act
The act spans §§ 442–442 (78 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case In Re Burke (1992)
Most recently applied in White v. CitiMortgage, Inc. (July 2017)
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 3427); Prior revisions: 1929 § 3040; 1919 § 2199; 1909 § 2810
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.