Effective - 28 Aug 1939
451.190. Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how. — If the minister or officer who solemnized any marriage, the record of which has been lost or destroyed, be dead, refuse to give a certificate as required by section 451.170, or his whereabouts be unknown, it shall be lawful for two credible persons who witnessed such marriage to make affidavit to the fact, giving the names of the persons, the name of the minister or officer officiating, and the date of such marriage, which shall be filed and recorded in the recorder's office of such county, which affidavit, or certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of such marriage in any court in this state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3642)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3252; 1919 § 10614; 1909 § 10425
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXX - Domestic Relations
Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
Section 451.010 - Marriage a civil contract.
Section 451.022 - Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
Section 451.030 - Bigamous marriage void.
Section 451.080 - Recorder to issue license — form of.
Section 451.100 - Marriages solemnized by whom.
Section 451.110 - Certificate of marriage to be given.
Section 451.115 - Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.
Section 451.130 - Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
Section 451.150 - Licenses to be recorded — fee.
Section 451.160 - Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
Section 451.170 - Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
Section 451.180 - New certificate obtained, how.
Section 451.190 - Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
Section 451.200 - Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
Section 451.210 - Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
Section 451.220 - Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
Section 451.230 - How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
Section 451.240 - Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
Section 451.270 - Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.