382.320 Clerk may correct errors and omissions of predecessor.
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(1)If the office of any county clerk has been vacated, leaving any instrument recorded
in his office, the original of which has never been taken therefrom, and in the record
of which, or the authentication thereof, there is a deviation from the original, the
successor shall correct such record by making it an exact copy of the original
instrument and authentication.
(2)Whenever the clerk who has vacated his office has failed to put his name to the
certificate on any instrument which he has recorded, or to the record thereof, and the
original has not been removed from his office, the successor shall sign the name of
his predecessor to the certificate, and shall make a note on the record at the foot of
the certificate, of any act so done.