Missouri Revised Statutes
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 490.260 (2026)
Records of religious societies
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490.260. Records of religious societies. — When, by the ordinance or custom of any religious society or congregation in this state, a register is required to be kept of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths or interments, such register shall be admitted as evidence.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1829)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1665; 1919 § 5352; 1909 § 6297
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1991–1991 · leading case: Cappo v. Allstate Life Ins. Co., 809 S.W.2d 131 (Mo. Ct. App. 1991).
Cappo v. Allstate Life Ins. Co., 809 S.W.2d 131 (Mo. Ct. App. 1991). “The court did not conclude that Paul Cappo had voluntarily disappeared, but rather that appellant had failed to meet her burden of proving not only that he did not voluntarily disappear, but that he died from accidental bodily injury.”
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