Missouri Marriage Laws | § 451.230

Missouri Revised Statutes 451.230

How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.

Such marriage contracts shall be acknowledged or proved before the same officer and certified in the same manner as deeds of conveyance for land are or shall be required by law to be acknowledged or proved and certified; and they shall be recorded, with the certificate of proof or acknowledgment, in the office of the recorder of each county where any estate is situated which is intended to be conveyed or affected thereby.

(RSMo 1939 § 3374)

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§ 451.080 Recorder to issue license — form of.
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§ 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.
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§ 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.
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