511.320. Copy of judgment decreeing conveyance recorded--effect of failure to record.
Copy of judgment decreeing conveyance recorded--effect of failure torecord.
511.320. 1. In all cases where any court of record shallrender final judgment, adjudging or decreeing a conveyance ofreal estate, or that any real estate pass, or shall render anyfinal judgment quieting or determining the title to any realestate, the party in whose favor the judgment or decree isrendered shall cause a copy thereof to be recorded in the officeof the recorder of the county wherein the lands passed or to beconveyed or the title to which is quieted or determined lie,within eight months after such judgment or decree is entered.
2. If such judgment or decree be not so recorded, it shallnot be valid, except between the parties thereto and such as haveactual notice thereof, and in all cases in which any defendant inany such judgment or decree shall have the right, by petition forreview, to show good cause for setting aside such judgment ordecree, within three years after such judgment or decree isrendered, and a copy of such judgment or decree is not filed forrecord within eight months as herein provided, such defendantshall be allowed two years and four months from the date of thefiling of a copy of such judgment or decree for record in whichto file such petition for review; provided, that nothing in thissection shall be construed to affect the provisions of section511.180.
(RSMo 1939 § 1298)Prior revisions: 1929 § 1134; 1919 § 1585; 1909 § 2154