55-109 - When original of writing once recorded is lost, how copy admitted to record elsewhere. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-109. When original of writing once recorded is lost, how copy admittedto record elsewhere.

If it be proper for any writing, which has been admitted to record in a courtof any county or corporation, to be admitted to record in the court ofanother county or corporation and the same, before being so admitted torecord in the court last mentioned, be lost or mislaid, on affidavit of thisfact, such court, or the clerk thereof, may admit to record a copy of suchwriting from the records of another court, certified by its clerk; and thecopy so admitted shall have the same effect as if the original had beenadmitted to record at the time the copy was admitted.

(Code 1919, § 5212.)