United States Code
TITLE 28. JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Part V—Procedure
Chapter 115. Evidence; Documentary
§ 1738. State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings;
full faith and credit
The Acts of the legislature of any State,
Territory, or Possession of the United States, or copies thereof, shall
be authenticated by affixing the seal of such State, Territory or
Possession thereto.
The records and judicial proceedings of any
court of any such State, Territory or Possession, or copies thereof,
shall be proved or admitted in other courts within the United States and
its Territories and Possessions by the attestation of the clerk and seal
of the court annexed, if a seal exists, together with a certificate of a
judge of the court that the said attestation is in proper form.
Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings
or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and
credit in every court within the United States and its Territories and
Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such 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. § 1738.
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