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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 25 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; PUBLIC RECORDS (§§ 25-1-1 — 25-65-33)
Chapter 55 - LOST RECORDS (§§ 25-55-1 — 25-55-31)
Section 25-55-7 - Effect of such abstracts

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MS Code § 25-55-7 (2023)
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Such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or the copy thereof if so procured, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the chancery court and copies recorded and arranged in such form as the board of supervisors may direct. In case the originals have been lost or destroyed, or are not in the power of the party asking to use the same on any trial or other proceedings, copies of such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or any part thereof, duly certified by the chancery clerk, shall be admissible in evidence, and shall establish prima facie that all deeds or other instruments appearing thereby to have been executed by any person, were executed and acknowledged at the date given, according to law.

Codes 1892, § 2792; 1906, § 3172; Hemingway's 1917, § 2513; 1930, § 2334; 1942, § 764.

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