§ 98-12. Court records as proof of destroyed instruments set out therein. - North Carolina Statutes

§98‑12.  Court records as proof of destroyed instruments set out therein.

The records of any court in orout of the State, and all transcripts of such records, and the exhibits filedtherewith in any case, are admissible to prove the existence and contents ofall deeds, wills, conveyances, depositions and other papers, copies whereof aretherein set forth or exhibited, in all cases where the records and registry ofsuch as were or ought to have been recorded and registered, or the originals ofsuch as were not proper to be recorded or registered, have been destroyed asaforesaid, although such transcripts or exhibits have been informallycertified; and when offered in evidence have the like effect as though thetranscript or record was the record of the court whose records are destroyed,and the deeds, wills and conveyances, depositions and other papers thereincopied or therewith exhibited were original. (1865‑6, c. 41, s. 10;Code, s. 65; Rev., s. 337; C.S., s. 376.)