Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXIX. Ownership and Conveyance of Property § 446.330. Copies of record of original archives

Whenever it shall appear that the original of any of the records, archives or other evidences mentioned in sections 446.290 to 446.320, after having been deposited and recorded in the office of the recorder of land titles, or of the recorder of any county, in pursuance of law, cannot be found therein, or has been lost or destroyed, or that neither the original nor a duly certified copy thereof can be obtained by the parties wishing to use it, a copy of the record of such original, duly certified by the officer having charge of such record, shall be received in evidence.