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United States Code
TITLE 28. JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Part V—Procedure
Chapter 115. Evidence; Documentary
§ 1739. State and Territorial nonjudicial records; full faith and
credit
All nonjudicial records or books kept in any
public office of any State, Territory, or Possession of the United
States, or copies thereof, shall be proved or admitted in any court or
office in any other State, Territory, or Possession by the attestation
of the custodian of such records or books, and the seal of his office
annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of a judge of a
court of record of the county, parish, or district in which such office
may be kept, or of the Governor, or secretary of state, the chancellor
or keeper of the great seal, of the State, Territory, or Possession that
the said attestation is in due form and by the proper officers.
If the certificate is given by a judge, it
shall be further authenticated by the clerk or prothonotary of the
court, who shall certify, under his hand and the seal of his office,
that such judge is duly commissioned and qualified; or, if given by such
Governor, secretary, chancellor, or keeper of the great seal, it shall
be under the great seal of the State, Territory, or Possession in which
it is made.
Such records or books, or copies thereof, so
authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court
and office within the United States and its Territories and Possessions
as they have by law or usage in the courts or offices of the State,
Territory, or Possession from which they are taken.
Source: Act of
June 25, 1948, c. 646, 62 Stat. 947.
Citation: 28
U.S.C. § 1739.
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