Missouri Marriage Laws | § 451.210

Missouri Revised Statutes 451.210

Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.

In all counties of this state where the records of marriages have been burned or otherwise destroyed, the recorder of deeds or other officer whose duty it may be to record certificates of marriages shall purchase at the expense of his county a substantially bound book in which he shall record certificates of marriage, produced, and shown to him to be genuine, by any party or parties whose record of marriage has been burned or otherwise destroyed, and the heirs and descendants of such party or parties may produce the certificate of marriage herein contemplated, and have the same recorded, and the recorder or officer recording shall receive therefor the sum of fifty cents for each certificate recorded.

(RSMo 1939 § 3644)

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§ 451.080 Recorder to issue license — form of.
§ 451.151 Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies — amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit — how.
§ 451.240 Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
§ 451.010 Marriage a civil contract.
§ 451.020 Certain marriages prohibited — official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor.
§ 451.022 Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
§ 451.030 Bigamous marriage void.
§ 451.040 Marriage license required, waiting period — presence not required, when — application, contents — license void when — common law of marriages void — lack of authority to perform marriage, effect.
§ 451.090 Issuance of license prohibited, when — parental consent, when required — proof of age.
§ 451.110 Certificate of marriage to be given.
§ 451.115 Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.
§ 451.120 Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof.
§ 451.130 Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
§ 451.150 Licenses to be recorded — fee.
§ 451.160 Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
§ 451.170 Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
§ 451.180 New certificate obtained, how.
§ 451.190 Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
§ 451.200 Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
§ 451.210 Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
§ 451.220 Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
§ 451.230 How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
§ 451.100 Marriages solemnized by whom.