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d OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY C;fNERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
**GROVERSELLERS** September 8, 19I&

Honorable 

### ii. k. Dad.8 State Hegietrer State Eoard of Health Auetin 2, Texae Dear Sir:

Your requeet for 0 tlonedmatter bar the herefnrboveoapbee fromyour letter a8 f

the district ia8uencoof certificate8 appreoiate it

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court OonBidOr the er for a certifiedoopy
he 1sBuenoe of euoh en order, la

please give me an outline or form for the petitionto be submitted to the oourt in such oaeee?"

I Section (24)of Rule &?a, underArtiole 4.477 of the ReriBedCirll Statutes, Vernon's Codiflcetion, LB 13sfollOWS:

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### "(25) Andprovided that the nameof the father or any information by whioh he might be ldentifled, shell not be written into the birth or death oertlficate of any illegitimate ohild, and provided further, that any statement the father of en illegitimate ohild wishee to makeea to its parentage, may, whenplaoed in the form of en effidevit, be etteohed to the original birth record. Reither the State itagi6trar nor any looel regirtrar shall issue a certified oopy of any birth or death oertifioate wherein a ohild or an adult im stated to be illegitimete, unlees suoh oertified oopy la ordered by a Court of competent jurisdloti0n.w It is thus seen that neither the Stat. Reglrtrar nor the local registrar mayissue a oertified oopy of any birth or death oertiticate where&n a ohild or an adult la Btotodto be illegitimate, unless auoh oortliied oopy is ordered by a oourt 2 oomnetent jurladlotion.

How0 oourt maynot **ex4rolao** its judlolal runeti0n8 in raoetion except where it 18 rpeolally authorized to do 10. 11 Tex. Jur., Sec. 80, p. 

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Wefind no authority for the <)ourt*s ordering suoh oertiried copy in raoatlon.

Artiole 

### 1915of the R6vised Civil Statutea, however, provide8 :

“Judges of the diatriot courts mayin vaoation, by consent of the partioa, exerolse all powers, makeall orders, end perform all aats, aa fully es in term time, and may, by oonaent of the parties, try any olvil oezlo, exoept diroroe ceses, without a jury and enter final judgment. All such pPOOOedhgs shall be oonduoted under the same rules as if done in term time; ana the right of appeals end writ of error ehall apply a8 if the acts had been done in term tims.W Under this statute, a judge of a distriot oourt, with the oonaent or all pertiee. would be authorized to order the iesuance of the oortlfled copy of the oertlfi.oates mentioned. See Seagraves v. Green, 116 Tex. 220, 288 S.N. 417; Woodsv. Lenier, 

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360; Iebillv. Stovell, 92 S.W. (2d) 1067; Weaverv. Humphrey, 

### 95Y.W. (26) 720, 114 S.W. (26) 609; Dollertv. Pratt-&wit Oil Corporeti'on,

I.79 S.W. (26) 346. M order requiring the iesuanoe of suah a certificate is in legal essence a mandamus,and the registraragainstwhom the order 1s ma;le would, of cour8e, be the respondentparty whose consent la required.

Other than upon oonaont of the partlee, the oourt would have no juriediotionto make the order in veoatlona8 herainebovestated.

Your aeoond qua&ion is anaered In the negative. Under the statute already dieoussed,any woourtof oompetent juriBdi8tion"m?mn~ a oourt having Jurlsdlotionw8r the 8ubjeotmatter and not nsocasarily over the person of th6 parties. Your queetion 2 pre8ent8a matter of po88iblevenue, but this do88 not go to ths juri8dlotionof the oourt aa a oourt,but would preB8ntmerely a q~e6tion or privilegsof ths rrspondant to be sued in hi8 own oounty, in a propar ease,whioh prfrilrge oould bewaived andwould, of oour88,b8 waived if he 8hould consent to the oourt'8hearing in determiningthe matter in vaoetion. With respcotto questionNo. 3,we will not undertake to prepare an outline or form ror the petition since the faota would ordlner1l.y

be SO peoullerlypertinent 08 to make our effort mile. Yours Tory truly, GENERAL

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