2019 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 422 - Evidence and lost records
422.200 Papers in suit lost -- How supplied.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 422.200 (2019)

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422.200 Papers in suit lost -- How supplied. When any papers in any suit pending or decided in any court have been lost, destroyed, defaced, or obliterated, and there is in existence an attested copy thereof, such copy may be filed in the office where such papers belong in lieu of the originals, and shall be prima facie evidence of the contents of the originals, and may be used as such originals could have been in all after proceedings in the suits to which the original papers belonged. The party whose rights or interests are affected by the filing of such copies shall be notified thereof, and may, upon notice to the adverse party or his attorney, move to strike such copies from the files, and the court shall, if justice requires, strike them from the files of the court. Effective: January 2, 1978 History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 425, effective January 2, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1643.
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