A letter of attorney is a written document that lets one person act on behalf of another. If that document is officially certified the same way property deed paperwork is certified, it can be used as evidence in court without needing extra proof that it was signed and real.
490.570. of attorney, how and — , when. — Every , or other containing a power to do any act or business whatever, other than the of , as or attorney for another, may be acknowledged or proved and , in the same manner as deeds or affecting real estate are, by law, required to be acknowledged or proved and certified, and, when so acknowledged or proved and certified, may, with the or , be read in evidence without further proof of the thereof.
(RSMo 1939 § 1863)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1699; 1919 § 5386; 1909 § 6330
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