2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 622 - EVIDENCE
622.55 - OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY.

        622.55  OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
         Copies of records and proceedings in the courts of a foreign
      country may be admitted in evidence upon being authenticated as
      follows:
         1.  By the official attestation of the clerk or officer in whose
      custody such records are legally kept.
         2.  By the certificate of one of the judges or magistrates of such
      court, that the person so attesting is the clerk or officer legally
      entrusted with the custody of such records, and that the signature to
      the clerk's or officer's attestation is genuine.
         3.  By the official certificate of the officer who has the custody
      of the principal seal of the government under whose authority the
      court is held, attested by said seal, stating that such court is duly
      constituted, specifying the general nature of its jurisdiction, and
      verifying the seal of the court.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C51, § 2440; R60, § 4060; C73, § 3715; C97, § 4647; C24, 27, 31,
      35, 39, § 11308; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81,
      § 622.55]
         Referred to in § 622.52

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