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AL Code § 12-21-66 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-66 - Proof of Land Office Deeds or Written Instruments for Conveyance or Sale of Land.

Section 12-21-66Proof of land office deeds or written instruments for conveyance or sale of land. Any deed or written instrument for the conveyance or sale of land purchased or entered at any land office of the United States in this state made or signed in or upon any book or record of such office may be proved by a copy thereof, certified by the register of such land office under his hand to be a correct copy, and such copy shall be received in all courts and proceedings under the laws of this state and may be recorded in the office of the probate judge of the county in which the land may be. A transcript of such record in the office of the probate judge may be certified and used in the same manner and in the same cases as transcripts of such records of original deeds may be. (Code 1867, §2692; Code 1876, §3044; Code 1886, §2783; Code 1896, §1814; Code 1907, §3981; Code 1923, §7679; Code 1940, T. 7, §391.)
AL Code § 12-21-67 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-67 - Proof of Exemplifications or Copies of Records, etc., Kept in Public Office.

Section 12-21-67Proof of exemplifications or copies of records, etc., kept in public office. Exemplifications or copies of records and records of deeds and other instruments or of office books, or parts thereof, and official bonds which are kept in any public office in this state shall be proved or admitted as legal evidence in this state by the attestation of the keeper of said records or books, deeds or other instruments or official bonds that the same are true and complete copies of the records, bonds, instruments or books, or parts thereof, in his custody, and the seal of said keeper thereto annexed, if there is a seal (if there is no official seal, there shall be attached to such attestation the certificate of the clerk), and the seal of the circuit, district or municipal court of the proper county where such keeper resides that such attestation is genuine and made by the proper officer. (Code 1923, §7709; Code 1940, T. 7, §423.)
AL Code § 12-21-68 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-68 - Proof of Publication of Notice.

Section 12-21-68Proof of publication of notice. The publication of any notice in a newspaper, when required by law or by order of court, may be proved by the production of a copy of the notice, with the affidavit of the printer, clerk or superintendent of the newspaper specifying the respective numbers and dates of the newspaper in which publication was made, and such affidavit shall be evidence. (Code 1907, §3993; Code 1923, §7691; Code 1940, T. 7, §403.)
AL Code § 12-21-69 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-69 - Proof of Posting of Notice.

Section 12-21-69Proof of posting of notice. The posting of any notice required by law or the order of any court may be proved by filing a copy of the notice with an affidavit of posting in the court in which the proceeding was had in which the notice was required, and such affidavit shall be competent evidence in all courts and shall be prima facie evidence of what it states, but this shall not be the exclusive mode of proof. (Code 1907, §3994; Code 1923, §7692; Code 1940, T. 7, §404.)
AL Code § 12-21-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-70 - Authentication of Foreign State, Territory, or Country's Legislative Acts; Effect Thereof.

Section 12-21-70Authentication of foreign state, territory, or country's legislative acts; effect thereof. The acts of the legislature of any state or territory or of any country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall be authenticated by having the seals of such state, territory or country affixed thereto. The record and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state or territory or of any such country shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States by the attestation of the clerk and the seal of the court annexed, if there is a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, Chief Justice or presiding magistrate that the said attestation is in due form. The said records and judicial proceedings so authenticated shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from which they are taken. (Code 1923, §7714; Code 1940, T. 7, §427.)
AL Code § 12-21-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-71 - Authentication of Foreign State, Territory, or Country's Public Records or Books; Effect Thereof.

Section 12-21-71Authentication of foreign state, territory, or country's public records or books; effect thereof. All records and exemplifications of books which may be kept in any public office of any state or territory or of any country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States not appertaining to a court shall be proved or admitted in any court or office in any other state or territory or in any such country by the attestation of the keeper of said records or books and the seal of his office annexed, if there is a seal, together with a certificate of the presiding justice of the court of the county, parish or district in which such office may be kept, or of the governor or secretary of state, the chancellor or keeper of the great seal of the state, territory or country that the said attestation is in due form and by the proper officers. If the said certificate is given by the presiding justice of a court, it shall be further authenticated by the clerk of said court, who shall certify under his hand and the seal of his office that the said presiding justice is duly commissioned and qualified; or, if given by such governor, secretary, chancellor or keeper of the great seal, it shall be under the great seal of the state, territory or country aforesaid in which it is made. The said records and exemplifications so authenticated shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court and office within the United States as they may have by law or usage in the court or offices of the state, territory or country as aforesaid from which they are taken. (Code 1923, §7715; Code 1940, T. 7, §428.)
AL Code § 12-21-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-72 - Authentication of Paper or Document by Bureau or Department Head.

Section 12-21-72Authentication of paper or document by bureau or department head. The certificate of the head of any bureau or department of the general government is sufficient authentication of any paper or document appertaining to his office. (Code 1852, §2294; Code 1867, §2694; Code 1876, §3046; Code 1886, §2787; Code 1896, §1818; Code 1907, §3985; Code 1923, §7683; Code 1940, T. 7, §396.)
AL Code § 12-21-73 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3 - Authentication of Documents, Proof of Facts, Etc.|Section 12-21-73 - Additional or Alternative Mode of Proof of Certain Official Documents.

Section 12-21-73Additional or alternative mode of proof of certain official documents. As an additional or alternative mode of proof, the following documents may be proved as follows: (1) Acts of the executive of this state, by the records of the state Department of the State, and of the United States, by the records of the State Department of the United States, certified by the heads of these departments respectively; they may also be proved by public documents printed by order of the Legislature or Congress, or either house thereof; (2) The proceedings of the Legislature of this state or of Congress, by the journals of those bodies respectively, or either house thereof, or by published statutes or resolutions or by copies certified by the clerk or printed by their order; (3) The acts of the executive or the proceedings of the Legislature of a sister state, in the same manner; (4) The acts of the executive or the proceedings of the Legislature of a foreign country, by journals published by their authority or commonly received in that country as such, or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or sovereign or by a recognition thereof in some public act of the executive of the United States; (5) Acts of a municipal corporation of this state, or of a board or department thereof, by a copy, certified by the legal keeper thereof, or by a printed book published by the authority of such corporation; (6) Documents of any other class in this state, by the original or by a copy, certified by the legal keeper thereof; (7) Documents of any other class in a sister state, by the original or by a copy, certified by the legal keeper thereof, together with the certificate of the secretary of state, judge of an appellate court, circuit or probate court or mayor of a city of such state that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original; (8) Documents of any other class in a foreign country, by the original or by a copy, certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate, under seal, of the country or sovereign that the document is a valid and subsisting document of such country and the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original; and (9) Documents in the departments of the United States government, by the certificate of the legal custodian thereof. (Code 1923, §7719; Code 1940, T. 7, §432.)
AL Code § 12-21-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-80 - Short Title.

Section 12-21-80Short title.  This subdivision may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act. (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-81 - Definitions.

Section 12-21-81Definitions.  In this subdivision: (1) "Boundaries of the United States" means the geographic boundaries of the United States, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. (2) "Law" includes the federal or a state constitution, a federal or state statute, a judicial decision or order, a rule of court, an executive order, and an administrative rule, regulation, or order. (3) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (4) "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record: (A) to execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or  (B) to attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process. (5) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. (6) "Sworn declaration" means a declaration in a signed record given under oath. The term includes a sworn statement, verification, certificate, and affidavit. (7) "Unsworn declaration" means a declaration in a signed record that is not given under oath, but is given under penalty of perjury. (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-82 - Applicability.

Section 12-21-82Applicability.  This subdivision applies to an unsworn declaration by a declarant who at the time of making the declaration is physically located outside the boundaries of the United States whether or not the location is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. This subdivision does not apply to a declaration by a declarant who is physically located on property that is within the boundaries of the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of another country or a federally recognized Indian tribe. (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-83 - Validity of Unsworn Declaration.

Section 12-21-83Validity of unsworn declaration.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if a law of this state requires or permits use of a sworn declaration, an unsworn declaration meeting the requirements of this subdivision has the same effect as a sworn declaration. (b) This subdivision does not apply to: (1) a deposition; (2) an oath of office; (3) an oath required to be given before a specified official other than a notary public;  (4) a declaration to be recorded pursuant to Title 35; (5) an oath required by Sections 43-8-132 and 43-8-133; or (6) a durable power of attorney executed pursuant to Chapter 1 of Title 26. (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-84 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-84 - Required Medium.

Section 12-21-84Required medium. If a law of this state requires that a sworn declaration be presented in a particular medium, an unsworn declaration must be presented in that medium. (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-85 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-85 - Form of Unsworn Declaration.

Section 12-21-85Form of unsworn declaration. An unsworn declaration under this subdivision must be in substantially the following form: I declare under penalty of perjury under the law of the State of Alabama that the foregoing is true and correct, and that I am physically located outside the geographic boundaries of the United States, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Executed on the (date), day of (month), (year), at ________________________________. (specific location, including city, state, country, or other descriptive information) _____________________ (printed name) _____________________ (signature) (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-86 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-86 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.

Section 12-21-86Uniformity of application and construction.  In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it. (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-87 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 3.5 - Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act.|Section 12-21-87 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Section 12-21-87Relation to electronic signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.  This subdivision modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001, et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b). (Act 2011-533, p. 884, §1.)
AL Code § 12-21-90 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.|Section 12-21-90 - Official Notice of Armed Forces Death.

Section 12-21-90Official notice of armed forces death. A written notice or communication purportedly from the Department of Defense, the Adjutant General of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy or other officer charged with the duty of sending such notice or communication to the effect that any person in the armed forces of our country, or serving as auxiliary thereto, is dead shall be prima facie evidence of the death of such person. (Acts 1945, No. 305, p. 499.)
AL Code § 12-21-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.|Section 12-21-91 - Official Report of Person Missing, etc.; Presumption of Signer's Authority.

Section 12-21-91Official report of person missing, etc.; presumption of signer's authority. (a) An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy or is dead or is alive, made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by any law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as prima facie evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy or is dead or is alive, as the case may be. (b) For the purpose of this section, any report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting to have been signed by such an officer or employee of the United States as is described in said section, shall prima facie be deemed to have been signed and issued by such an officer or employee pursuant to law, and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted within the scope of his authority. If a copy purports to have been certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his authority so to certify. (Acts 1951, No. 29, p. 240, §§2, 3.)
AL Code § 12-21-92 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.|Section 12-21-92 - Secretary of State's Publication of Foreign Interest Rates.

Section 12-21-92Secretary of State's publication of foreign interest rates. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. (Code 1852, §2285; Code 1867, §2688; Code 1876, §3042; Code 1886, §2791; Code 1896, §1823; Code 1907, §3990; Code 1923, §7688; Code 1940, T. 7, §400.)
AL Code § 12-21-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.|Section 12-21-93 - Statutes of Other States and Territories.

Section 12-21-93Statutes of other states and territories. The printed statute books of the several states and territories of the United States, purporting to be printed under the authority of those states and territories, and any copy of any statute, or any part thereof, contained therein, having attached thereto the certificate of the secretary of state, under seal of the state, certifying the copy to be complete and correct, that the statute book, from which the copy is taken, is deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State or in the state library and is, by him, believed to have been received under the authority of the state and territory purporting to have enacted the same shall be presumptive evidence in all courts of the legislative acts, public or private, of those states or territories, respectively. When the statute as written is only a part of the law of a state or territory and it is affected by other facts of a legal nature existing in that state or territory, if the courts of such state or territory have deduced from the written words of the statute upon a particular state of facts a well understood rule of law, then such rule of law may be proved by the testimony or opinions of competent witnesses instructed in the law of that state, or by the introduction into evidence of the books of reports of cases adjudged in that state purporting to be the official reports thereof, or to have been published under the authority of such state, or as a part of the national reporter system or of any universally accepted system of reports of decided cases or the works of commentators of recognized authority on the law of the particular state involved. (Acts 1959, No. 105, p. 590, §2.)
AL Code § 12-21-94 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Evidence.|Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.|Section 12-21-94 - Transcripts of Congressional Acts and Foreign Statutes.

Section 12-21-94Transcripts of congressional acts and foreign statutes. Transcripts of Acts of Congress or of the statutes of any other state or territory of the United States, certified by the Secretary of State of this state as being deposited in his office or as being deposited in the Supreme Court library, and public or private statutes or the proceedings of any legislative body, purporting on the face of the book to be printed by authority of the government, state or territory, are evidence without further proof. (Code 1852, §2293; Code 1867, §2693; Code 1876, §3045; Code 1886, §2790; Code 1896, §1821; Code 1907, §3988; Code 1923, §7686; Code 1940, T. 7, §399.)