76-253. Mortgage; record; certificate of discharge or satisfaction.

Any mortgage shall be discharged upon the record thereof by the register of deeds in whose custody it shall be, whenever there shall be presented to him a certificate executed by the mortgagee, his legal personal representative or assignee, acknowledged or proved or certified as prescribed in sections 76-216 to 76-236, specifying that such mortgage has been paid, or otherwise satisfied and discharged.

Source:R.S.1866, c. 43, § 32, p. 287; Laws 1887, c. 30, § 22, p. 371; R.S.1913, § 6225; C.S.1922, § 5624; C.S.1929, § 76-230; R.S.1943, § 76-253; Laws 1963, c. 430, § 1, p. 1446.

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