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WI Stat § 889.13 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.13 - Transcript of municipal court records.

889.13  Transcript of municipal court records. A certified transcript from the original records, papers and files in or concerning any action or proceeding in municipal court is not admissible in evidence outside of the county, unless there is affixed a certificate of the clerk of the circuit court of the county, under seal, that the person who certified the transcript was, at the date thereof, a municipal judge of the county, or other person having legal custody of the books and papers; and if the judgment was rendered by another, that such other was, at the date of the rendition of the judgment, a municipal judge of the county.History:  1977 c. 305.Copies of records must be given to any applicant who tenders the proper fee, regardless of the purpose in requesting the copy. 58 Atty. Gen. 67.
WI Stat § 889.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.14 - Proof of unrecorded proceedings before municipal judge.

889.14  Proof of unrecorded proceedings before municipal judge. The proceedings in any cause had before a municipal judge, not reduced to writing by the municipal judge, nor being the contents of any paper or document produced before the municipal judge, and the contents of any such paper or document as shall have been lost or destroyed, may be proved by the oath of the municipal judge.History:  1985 a. 332.
WI Stat § 889.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.15 - Proceedings of other courts as evidence.

889.15  Proceedings of other courts as evidence. The records and judicial proceedings of any court of the United States, or of any state or territory or district thereof and of any foreign country, and copies thereof, shall be admissible in evidence in all cases in this state when authenticated or certified in the manner directed by ss. 889.07 and 889.08 or by acts of congress, or the laws of such state, territory or district, or of such foreign country.
WI Stat § 889.16 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.16 - Judgment of foreign justice.

889.16  Judgment of foreign justice. A certified copy of the record of the judicial proceedings of any foreign court not of record with a certificate of magistracy affixed, signed and sealed by the clerk of a court of record in the county or district where such proceedings were had, shall be admissible in evidence in all cases.
WI Stat § 889.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.17 - Conveyances and record thereof.

889.17  Conveyances and record thereof. Every instrument entitled by law to be recorded or filed in the office of a register of deeds, and the record thereof and a certified copy of any such record or of any such filed instrument, is admissible in evidence without further proof thereof, and the record and copies shall have like effect with the original.
WI Stat § 889.18 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.18 - Official records.

889.18  Official records. (1) Chiropractors. The record by the county clerk of license or certificate under s. 446.02 shall not be evidence on behalf of the licensee or certificate holder without production of the license or certificate or competent evidence from the board or body that issued the same. (2)  Copies as evidence. A certified copy of any written or printed matter preserved pursuant to law in any public office or with any public officer in this state, or of the United States, is admissible in evidence whenever and wherever the original is admissible, and with like effect. (3)  Copies, duty to make. Any such officer of this state who, when tendered the legal fee therefor and requested to furnish such certified copy, shall unreasonably refuse to comply with such request, shall forfeit not less than $20 nor more than $100, one-half to the person prosecuting therefor.History:  Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R5 (1973).This section does not make admissible police accident reports that contain hearsay or conclusions. Wilder v. Classified Risk Ins. Co. 47 Wis. 2d 286, 177 N.W.2d 109 (1970).While sub. (2) does not refer to admission into evidence of copies of the official records from other states, other authority admits those documents. Organ v. State, 65 Wis. 2d 36, 221 N.W.2d 823 (1974).A certified copy of an order by the transportation department revoking the defendant's driver's license was admissible under sub. (2). The identity of the defendant as the one whose license had been revoked was prima facie established where the name was not common. State v. Mullis, 81 Wis. 2d 454, 260 N.W.2d 696 (1978).
WI Stat § 889.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.19 - Pedigree recitals in deeds and wills.

889.19  Pedigree recitals in deeds and wills. Any deed, mortgage, land contract or other conveyance that has been duly recorded in the proper register's office for 20 years, and any will that has been admitted to probate, containing a recital in respect to pedigree, blood relationship, marriage, celibacy, adoption or descent, and being in other respects admissible in evidence, shall be admitted as prima facie evidence that the recital is true. History:  1999 a. 162.
WI Stat § 889.23 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.23 - Acknowledged writings, evidence.

889.23  Acknowledged writings, evidence. Every written instrument, except promissory notes and bills of exchange, and wills, may be proved or acknowledged in the manner now provided by law for taking the proof or acknowledgment of conveyances of real estate and when so proved and acknowledged shall be competent evidence whenever it is relevant. Any instrument, which is attested but which is not required by law to be witnessed, may be proved as though there were no subscribing witness thereto.History:  Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R6 (1973).This section would not permit introduction of a copy of an insurance policy supported by an affidavit since the acknowledgment must be by the signer of the instrument. Whalen v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. 51 Wis. 2d 635, 187 N.W.2d 820.
WI Stat § 889.24 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.24 - Conveyance, how proved.

889.24  Conveyance, how proved. When any grantor shall die or depart from or reside out of this state, not having acknowledged the grantor's conveyance, the due execution thereof may be proved by any competent subscribing witness thereto before any court of record; if all the subscribing witnesses to such deed shall be dead or out of this state the same may be proved before any such court by proving the handwriting of the grantor and of any subscribing witness thereto.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 889.241 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.241 - How made when grantor refuses.

889.241  How made when grantor refuses. If any grantor residing in this state refuses to acknowledge his or her conveyance, the grantee or any person claiming under the grantee may apply to the circuit judge in the county where the land lies or where the grantor or any subscribing witness to the conveyance resides. The judge shall then issue a summons to the grantor to appear at a certain time and place before the judge to hear the testimony of the subscribing witnesses to the conveyance. The summons, with a copy of the conveyance annexed, shall be served at least 7 days before the time therein assigned for proving the conveyance. At the time mentioned in the summons or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned the due execution of the conveyance may be proved by the testimony of one or more of the subscribing witnesses. If the conveyance is proved to the satisfaction of the judge, he or she shall certify the conveyance, and in such certificate the judge shall note the presence or absence of the grantor as the fact may be.History:  1977 c. 449; 1979 c. 32.
WI Stat § 889.242 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.242 - How, when witnesses dead.

889.242  How, when witnesses dead. If any grantor residing in this state refuses to acknowledge the grantor's conveyance and all the subscribing witnesses thereto are dead or out of the state, it may be proved before any court of record by proving the handwriting of the grantor or of any subscribing witness, upon the court first summoning the grantor to hear the testimony as provided in s. 889.241.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 889.243 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.243 - Witnesses, how subpoenaed; neglect to appear.

889.243  Witnesses, how subpoenaed; neglect to appear. The court before whom any conveyance may be presented to be proved, as provided in ss. 889.24 to 889.243, may issue subpoenas to the subscribing witnesses or others, as required, to appear and testify touching the execution of such deed, which subpoenas may be served in any part of this state; and every person so subpoenaed who, without reasonable cause, neglects to appear or refuses to answer on oath touching the matters aforesaid shall be liable to the party injured in the sum of $100 damages and for such further damages as the party may sustain thereby, and may also be punished as for a contempt by the court.
WI Stat § 889.28 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.28 - Proof of age.

889.28  Proof of age. The circuit court of any county may, upon application and satisfactory proof made, make a certificate specifying the age, place of birth and parentage of any resident of the county or of any person born in the county. Such certificate or a duplicate or a certified copy thereof, when recorded in the office of the register of deeds, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.History:  1977 c. 449 s. 497; 1993 a. 301.
WI Stat § 889.29 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.|889.29 - Photographic copies of business records as evidence.

889.29  Photographic copies of business records as evidence. (1) If any business, institution, or member of a profession or calling in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process that accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, or to be recorded on an optical disc or in electronic format, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business, unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction or optical disc record, when reduced to comprehensible format and when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction of a record or an enlarged copy of a record generated from an original record stored in optical disc or electronic format is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement, or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original. No such record is inadmissible solely because it is in electronic format. (2) This section does not apply to public records. (3) This section shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it.History:  1985 a. 180; 1993 a. 172; 1995 a. 27; 2003 a. 294; 2015 a. 196.
WI Stat § 891.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.03 - Lists of state lands.

891.03  Lists of state lands. All statements or lists of lands which shall have been certified by the president of the United States, or by any other officer of the government thereof, as conveyed to the state under or by any act of congress, being produced by the proper custodians thereof, shall be received in all cases as presumptive evidence that the title of the lands therein described became thereby vested in the state.
WI Stat § 891.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.04 - Certificate as to public lands.

891.04  Certificate as to public lands. The certificate of the executive secretary appointed under s. 24.55 under the official seal, that any specified piece or tract of land belongs to or is mortgaged to the state, or that the state has any interest, legal or equitable, in that land shall be presumptive evidence of the facts so stated. The certificate of the secretary of natural resources under the official seal of the department that authority has been given to any person, naming the person, to seize timber or other materials specified in ch. 26 shall be presumptive evidence of the fact so stated.History:  1971 c. 164; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (32) (a); 1979 c. 176; 1993 a. 16.
WI Stat § 891.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.05 - Land patents by state officers.

891.05  Land patents by state officers. Every patent which shall have been executed and delivered by the commissioners of school and university lands or by the commissioners of public lands, purporting to convey any land, and every deed or patent which shall have been executed and delivered by the governor, purporting to convey any lands granted to the state by the United States, shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated and that the grantee named therein became vested thereby at the date thereof with an absolute title in fee to the lands therein described.
WI Stat § 891.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.06 - Deed on judicial sale.

891.06  Deed on judicial sale. Every conveyance of land or any estate or interest therein executed by any sheriff, referee, receiver or other person, in pursuance of a sale made by virtue of any judgment, order, license or execution of any court of record in this state, and which shall have been recorded in the proper county, as well as such record, shall be received, as presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated and that the title, estate or interest in the land therein described, which such conveyance purports to convey, of every person whom it purports to affect passed to and vested in the grantee therein at the date thereof or at such previous date as such conveyance purports to fix for that purpose.
WI Stat § 891.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.07 - Certificate of judicial sale.

891.07  Certificate of judicial sale. Every certificate of sale of land or any estate or interest therein executed by any sheriff, referee, receiver or other person, in pursuance of a sale made by virtue of any judgment, order, license or execution of any court of record in this state, and the record thereof, shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated.
WI Stat § 891.08 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.08 - Records showing revenue stamps.

891.08  Records showing revenue stamps. Whenever the record, in the office of a register of deeds, of any conveyance or of any instrument whatever, upon which revenue stamps may have been at any time required to be affixed by any act of congress, shall show such stamps or any of them, more or less, to have been affixed, it shall be presumptive evidence that such conveyance or instrument had properly affixed to it the number and denomination of stamps required by law.
WI Stat § 891.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.09 - Record of births, stillbirths, fetal deaths, deaths and marriages.

891.09  Record of births, stillbirths, fetal deaths, deaths and marriages. (1) Records as evidence. The record of any marriage, birth, stillbirth, fetal death or death kept in the office of any register of deeds or local health officer of a local health department, as defined in s. 250.01 (4) (a) 2. or 3. or (b), or in the state bureau of vital records shall be received as presumptive evidence of the marriage, birth, stillbirth, fetal death or death so recorded. (2)  Church and doctor's records. Any church, parish or baptismal record, and any record of a physician or a person authorized to solemnize marriages, in which record are preserved the facts relating to any birth, stillbirth, fetal death, marriage or death, including the names of the persons, dates, places and other material facts, may be admitted as prima facie evidence of any fact aforesaid. But such record must be produced by its proper custodian and be supported by the custodian's oath that it is such a record as it purports to be and is genuine to the best of the custodian's knowledge and belief. (3)  Certificates of foreign births, etc. Official certificates of births, marriages or deaths, issued in foreign countries in which such births, marriages or deaths have occurred, purporting to be founded on books of record, properly authenticated, shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts in such certificates stated.History:  Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R6 (1973); 1993 a. 27, 486; 2017 a. 334.
WI Stat § 891.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.10 - Village records.

891.10  Village records. The papers, documents and orders relating to the organization and incorporation or the alteration of the boundaries of any village, being recorded in the office of the proper register of deeds pursuant to law, and such record and also the record thereof in the office of the village clerk shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated.
WI Stat § 891.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.11 - County records as to taxation.

891.11  County records as to taxation. (1) All books and files in the office of any county treasurer or county clerk, all assessments and tax rolls and certificates, all notices required to be published or posted by the county treasurer or county clerk, and the proofs of publication or posting filed in the office of either, pursuant to any law relating to the assessment or collection of taxes or to lands included in a tax certificate under s. 74.57, shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated. (2) A transcript of so much of said books, files and records, as relates to the assessment or sale for taxes of any parcel of land in any specified year or years shall be received in evidence with the same effect as the originals and as presumptive evidence of the facts stated in such certificate, when certified in substantially the following form:I hereby certify that the annexed and foregoing is a true and correct transcript of all books, records, papers, files and proceedings of every name and nature on file or of record in my office relating in any wise to the assessment of taxes upon or to the sale for taxes of the following described lands .... situated in the county of ...., state of Wisconsin, for the year (or years) A.D. ...., and of the whole thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this .... day of ...., A.D. .....County Clerk (or Treasurer) of .... County.History:  1987 a. 378.
WI Stat § 891.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.12 - Land office receipt.

891.12  Land office receipt. The receiver's receipt or certificate of purchase of public lands, signed by the receiver, and the official certificate of any register or receiver of the entry or purchase of any land or the location of any land by any land warrant shall be received, when held by the original claimant, or the original claimant's heirs or assigns, as presumptive evidence that the title to the lands therein described passed to and is vested in the person therein named, or the named person's heirs or assigns, except when, at the time of such entry or purchase, the land was owned or occupied by any person as mineral ground on which discoveries of mineral ores had been made.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 891.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.14 - State land office certification of title.

891.14  State land office certification of title. A certificate of the executive secretary of the board of commissioners of public lands, or any one of the commissioners of the public lands shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts stated, and that the person named became vested at the date stated with an absolute title in fee to the lands described when it is substantially in the following form:Office of the Commissioners of the Public Lands, Madison, Wis., ...., A.D. .....I hereby certify that from the books, files and records of the office of the commissioners of public lands it appears that on the .... day of ...., A.D. ...., the following described real estate, situate in the state of Wisconsin, .... was duly transferred by the United States to the state of Wisconsin, and that on the .... day of ...., A.D. ...., the above described real estate was duly transferred by the state of Wisconsin to .....In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the commissioners of the public lands this .... day of ...., A.D. ......... ....History:  1971 c. 164; 1975 c. 41 s. 51; 1993 a. 16.
WI Stat § 891.16 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.16 - Certificate of land transfers.

891.16  Certificate of land transfers. A certificate by the secretary of state, under the great or lesser seal, to any facts which appear from the books, files and records in the secretary of state's office or the office of the commissioners of public lands in regard to the grant, conveyance or transfer of any land by the United States to the territory or state of Wisconsin, and also in regard to the sale, conveyance or transfer of any such land by said territory or state shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts so certified.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 891.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.17 - Certificate of adjutant general.

891.17  Certificate of adjutant general. A certificate by the adjutant general to any facts which appear from the books, files and records in the adjutant general's office shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts so certified.History:  1993 a. 486.
WI Stat § 891.18 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 891 - Presumptions.|891.18 - Affidavits of service.

891.18  Affidavits of service. Whenever any notice or other writing is by law authorized or required to be served the affidavit of the person serving it, setting forth the facts necessary to show that it was duly served, shall be presumptive proof that such notice or writing was duly served. But this section shall not apply to any service where another way of proving such service is expressly prescribed by law.When the affidavit of service did not identify the person served as one specified in s. 801.11 (5) (a), no presumption of due service was raised. Danielson v. Brody Seating Co., 71 Wis. 2d 424, 238 N.W.2d 531 (1976).