District of Columbia § 14-502 Records of deeds, instruments, and wills.

District of Columbia Statutes

§ 14-502 — Records of deeds, instruments, and wills.

District of Columbia § 14-502

Title 14Proof. [Enacted title]

Ch. 5Documentary Evidence.

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D.C. Code § 14-502 (2026).

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Under the hand of the keeper of a record and the seal of the court or office in which the record was made:

(1)a copy of the record of a deed, or other written instrument not of a testamentary character, where the laws of the State, territory, commonwealth, possession or country where it was recorded require such a record, and that has been recorded agreeably to those laws; and

(2)a copy of a will that the laws require to be admitted to probate and record by judicial decree, and of the decree of the court admitting the will to probate and record —

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Under the hand of the keeper of a record and the seal of the court or office in which the record was made:

(1) a copy of the record of a deed, or other written instrument not of a testamentary character, where the laws of the State, territory, commonwealth, possession or country where it was recorded require such a record, and that has been recorded agreeably to those laws; and

(2) a copy of a will that the laws require to be admitted to probate and record by judicial decree, and of the decree of the court admitting the will to probate and record —