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NC Gen Stat § 8-37.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 3A - Findings, Records and Reports of Federal Officers and Employees.|§ 8-37.2 - Report or record that person missing, interned, captured, etc.

 8-37.2. Report or record that person missing, interned, captured, etc.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 the act referred to in 8-37.1, or by any other 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. (1945, c. 731, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-37.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 3A - Findings, Records and Reports of Federal Officers and Employees.|§ 8-37.3 - Deemed signed and issued pursuant to law; evidence of authority to certify.

 8-37.3. Deemed signed and issued pursuant to law; evidence of authority to certify.For the purposes of 8-37.1 and 8-37.2 any finding, 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 sections, 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. (1945, c. 731, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-39 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-39 - Parol evidence to identify land described.

 8-39. Parol evidence to identify land described.In all actions for the possession of or title to any real estate parol testimony may be introduced to identify the land sued for, and fit it to the description contained in the paper-writing offered as evidence of title or of the right of possession, and if from this evidence the jury is satisfied that the land in question is the identical land intended to be conveyed by the parties to such paper-writing, then such paper-writing shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient in law to pass such title to or interest in such land as it purports to pass: Provided, that such paper-writing is in all other respects sufficient to pass such title or interest. (1891, c. 465, s. 1; Rev., s. 1605; C.S., s. 1783.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-41 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-41 - Bills of lading in evidence.

 8-41. Bills of lading in evidence.In all actions by or against common carriers or in the trial of any criminal action in which it shall be thought necessary to introduce in evidence any bills of lading issued by said common carrier or by a connecting carrier, it shall be competent to introduce in evidence any paper-writing purporting to be the original bill of lading, or a duplicate thereof, upon proof that such paper purporting to be such bill of lading or duplicate was received in due course of mail from consignor or agent of said carrier or connecting carrier, or delivered by said common carrier to the consignee or other person entitled to the possession of the property for which said paper purports to be the bill of lading: Provided, that such purported bill of lading shall not be declared to be the bill of lading unless the said purported bill of lading is first exhibited by the plaintiff or his agent or attorney to the defendant or its attorney, or its agent upon whom process may be served, ten days before the trial where the point of shipment is in the State, and twenty days when the point of shipment is without the State. Upon such proof and introduction of the bill of lading, the due execution thereof shall be prima facie established. (1915, c. 287; C.S., s. 1785; 1945, c. 97.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-42 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-42 - Book accounts under sixty dollars.

 8-42. Book accounts under sixty dollars.When any person shall bring an action upon a contract, or shall plead, or give notice of, a setoff or counterclaim for goods, wares and merchandise by him sold and delivered, or for work done and performed, he shall file his account with his complaint, or with his plea or notice of setoff or counterclaim, and if upon the trial of the issue, or executing a writ of inquiry of damages in such action, he shall declare upon his oath that the matter in dispute is a book account, and that he hath no means to prove the delivery of any of the articles which he then shall propose to prove by himself but by this book, in that case such book may be given in evidence, if he shall make out by his own oath that it doth contain a true account of all the dealings, or the last settlement of accounts between himself and the opposing party, and that all the articles therein contained, and by him so proved, were bona fide delivered, and that he hath given the opposing party all just credits; and such book and oath shall be received as evidence for the several articles so proved to be delivered within two years next before the commencement of the action, but not for any article of a longer standing, nor for any greater amount than sixty dollars ($60.00). (1756, c. 57, ss. 2, 6, 7, P.R.; R.C., c. 15, s. 1; Code, s. 591; Rev., s. 1622; C.S., s. 1786.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-43 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-43 - Book accounts proved by personal representative.

 8-43. Book accounts proved by personal representative.In all actions where executors and administrators are parties, such book account for all articles delivered within two years previous to the death of the deceased may be proved under the like circumstances, rules and conditions; and in such case, the executor or administrator may prove by himself that he found the account so stated on the books of the deceased; that there are no witnesses, to his knowledge, capable of proving the delivery of the articles which he shall propose to prove by said book, and that he believes the same to be just, and doth not know of any other or further credit to be given than what is therein mentioned: Provided, that if two years shall not have elapsed previous to the death of the deceased, the executor or administrator may prove the said book account, if the suit shall be commenced within three years from the delivery of the articles: Provided further, that whenever by the aforesaid proviso the time of proving a book account in manner aforesaid is enlarged as to the one party, to the same extent shall be enlarged the time as to the other party. (1756, c. 57, s. 2, P.R.; 1796, c. 465, P.R.; R.C., c. 15, s. 2; Code, s. 592; Rev., s. 1623; C.S., s. 1787.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-44 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-44 - Copies of book accounts in evidence.

 8-44. Copies of book accounts in evidence.A copy from the book of accounts proved in manner above directed may be given in evidence in any such action or setoff as aforesaid, and shall be as available as if such book had been produced, unless the party opposing such proof shall give notice to the adverse party or his attorney, at the joining of the issue, or 10 days before the trial, that he will require the book to be produced at the trials; and in that case no such copy shall be admitted as evidence. (1756, c. 57, s. 33, P.R.; R.C., c. 15, s. 3; C.C.P., s. 343c; Code, s. 593; Rev., s. 1624; C.S., s. 1788.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-44.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-44.1 - Hospital medical records.

 8-44.1. Hospital medical records.Copies or originals of hospital medical records shall not be held inadmissible in any court action or proceeding on the grounds that they lack certification, identification, or authentication, and shall be received as evidence if otherwise admissible, in any court or quasi-judicial proceeding, if they have been tendered to the presiding judge or designee by the custodian of the records, in accordance with G.S. 1A-1, Rule 45(c), or if they are certified, identified, and authenticated by the live testimony of the custodian of such records.Hospital medical records are defined for purposes of this section and G.S. 1A-1, Rule 45(c) as records made in connection with the diagnosis, care and treatment of any patient or the charges for such services except that records covered by G.S. 122-8.1, G.S. 90-109.1 and federal statutory or regulatory provisions regarding alcohol and drug abuse, are subject to the requirements of said statutes. (1973, c. 1332, s. 1; 1983, c. 665, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-45 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4 - Other Writings in Evidence.|§ 8-45 - Itemized and verified accounts.

 8-45. Itemized and verified accounts.In any actions instituted in any court of this State upon an account for goods sold and delivered, for rents, for services rendered, or labor performed, or upon any oral contract for money loaned, a verified itemized statement of such account shall be received in evidence, and shall be deemed prima facie evidence of its correctness. (1897, c. 480; Rev., s. 1625; 1917, c. 32; C.S., s. 1789; 1941, c. 104.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-45.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4A - Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records.|§ 8-45.1 - Photographic reproductions admissible; destruction of originals.

 8-45.1. Photographic reproductions admissible; destruction of originals.(a) If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, X ray 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 which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction, 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 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.(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall apply to records stored on any form of permanent, computer-readable media, such as a CD-ROM, if the medium is not subject to erasure or alteration. Nonerasable, computer-readable storage media may be used for preservation duplicates, as defined in G.S. 132-8.2, or for the preservation of permanently valuable records as provided in G.S. 121-5(d).  (1951, ch. 262, s. 1; 1977, ch. 569; 1999-131, s. 1; 1999-456, s. 47(a); 2011-326, s. 13(b).)
NC Gen Stat § 8-45.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4A - Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records.|§ 8-45.2 - Uniformity of interpretation.

 8-45.2. Uniformity of interpretation.This Article shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it. (1951, c. 262, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-45.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4A - Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records.|§ 8-45.3 - Photographic reproduction of records of Department of Revenue and Division of Employment Security.

 8-45.3. Photographic reproduction of records of Department of Revenue and Division of Employment Security.(a) The State Department of Revenue is hereby specifically authorized to have photographed, photocopied, or microphotocopied all records of the Department, including tax returns required by law to be made to the Department, and said photographs, photocopies, or microphotocopies, when certified by the Department as true and correct photographs, photocopies, or microphotocopies, shall be as admissible in evidence in all actions, proceedings and matters as the originals thereof would have been.(a1) The Division of Employment Security is hereby specifically authorized to have photographed, photocopied, or microphotocopied all records of the Division, including filings required by law to be made to the Division, and said photographs, photocopies, or microphotocopies, when certified by the Division as true and correct photographs, photocopies, or microphotocopies, shall be as admissible in evidence in all actions, proceedings, and matters as the originals thereof would have been.(b) The provisions of this section shall apply to records stored on any form of permanent, computer-readable media, such as a CD-ROM, if the medium is not subject to erasure or alteration. Nonerasable, computer-readable storage media may be used for preservation duplicates, as defined in G.S. 132-8.2, or for the preservation of permanently valuable records as provided in G.S. 121-5(d).  (1951, c. 262, s. 3; 1999-131, s. 2; 1999-456, s. 47(b); 2001-115, s. 1; 2011-326, s. 13(c); 2011-401, s. 3.2.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-45.4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4A - Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records.|§ 8-45.4 - Title of Article.

 8-45.4. Title of Article.This Article may be cited as the "Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act." (1951, c. 262, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-45.5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 4B - Evidence of Fraud, Duress, Undue Influence.|§ 8-45.5 - Statements, releases, etc., obtained from persons in shock or under the influence of drugs; fraud presumed.

 8-45.5. Statements, releases, etc., obtained from persons in shock or under the influence of drugs; fraud presumed.Any oral or written statement, waiver, release, receipt, or other representation of any kind by any person made or executed while a patient in any hospital and taken by any person in connection with any type of insurance coverage on or for the benefit of said patient which shall have been taken while such patient was in shock or appreciably under the influence of any drug, including drugs given primarily for sedation, shall be deemed to have been obtained by means of fraud, duress or undue influence on the part of the person or persons taking same, and the same shall be incompetent and inadmissible in evidence to prove or disprove any fact or circumstance relating to any claim for which any insurance company may be liable under any policy of insurance issued to, or which may indemnify or provide coverage or protection for the person making or executing any such statement or other instrument while a patient in a hospital, nor may any such person making or executing the same be examined or cross-examined in regard thereto. (1967, c. 928.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-46 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 5 - Life Tables.|§ 8-46 - Mortality tables as evidence.

 8-46. Mortality tables as evidence.Whenever it is necessary to establish the expectancy of continued life of any person from any period of the person's life, whether the person is living at the time or not, the table hereto appended shall be received in all courts and by all persons having power to determine litigation, as evidence, with other evidence as to the health, constitution and habits of the person, of such expectancy represented by the figures in the columns headed by the words "completed age" and "expectation" respectively:  Completed Age  Expectation    0  75.8    1  75.4    2  74.5    3  73.5    4  72.5    5  71.6    6  70.6    7  69.6    8  68.6    9  67.6    10  66.6    11  65.6    12  64.6    13  63.7    14  62.7    15  61.7    16  60.7    17  59.8    18  58.8    19  57.9    20  56.9    21  56.0    22  55.1    23  54.1    24  53.2    25  52.2    26  51.3    27  50.4    28  49.4    29  48.5    30  47.5    31  46.6    32  45.7    33  44.7    34  43.8    35  42.9    36  42.0    37  41.0    38  40.1    39  39.2    40  38.3    41  37.4    42  36.5    43  35.6    44  34.7    45  33.8    46  32.9    47  32.0    48  31.1    49  30.2    50  29.3    51  28.5    52  27.6    53  26.8    54  25.9    55  25.1    56  24.3    57  23.5    58  22.7    59  21.9    60  21.1    61  20.4    62  19.7    63  18.9    64  18.2    65  17.5    66  16.8    67  16.1    68  15.5    69  14.8    70  14.2    71  13.5    72  12.9    73  12.3    74  11.7    75  11.2    76  10.6    77  10.0    78  9.5    79  9.0    80  8.5    81  8.0    82  7.5    83  7.1    84  6.6    85 and over  6.6   (1883, c. 225; Code, s. 1352; Rev., s. 1626; C.S., s. 1790; 1955, c. 870; 1971, c. 968; 1997-133, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-48 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 6 - Calendars.|§ 8-48 - Clark's Calendar; proof of dates.

 8-48. Clark's Calendar; proof of dates.(a) In any controversy or inquiry in any court or before any fact finding board, commission, administrative agency or other body, where it becomes necessary or pertinent to determine any information which may be established by reference to a calendar for any year between the years 1753 A.D. and 2002 A.D., inclusive, it is permissible to introduce in evidence "Clark's Calendar, a Calendar Covering 250 Years, 1753 A.D. to 2002 A.D.," as supplemented, copyrighted, 1940, by E. B. Clark, Entry: Class AA, Number 328,573, Copyright Office of the United States of America, Washington, or any reprint of the 1940 edition certified by the Secretary of State to be an accurate copy of it, and the calendar or reprint, when so introduced, shall be prima facie evidence that the information disclosed by the calendar or reprint is true and correct.(b) The Secretary of State shall prepare and publish a perpetual calendar similar to Clark's Calendar covering years beginning with 2003 A.D. The perpetual calendar published by the Secretary of State shall be admissible in evidence to the same degree and in the same manner as Clark's Calendar for years beginning with 2003. (1941, c. 312; 1997-58, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-49 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 7 - Competency of Witnesses.|§ 8-49 - Witness not excluded by interest or crime.

 8-49. Witness not excluded by interest or crime.No person offered as a witness shall be excluded, by reason of incapacity from interest or crime, from giving evidence either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court, or before any judge, justice, jury or other person having, by law, authority to hear, receive and examine evidence; and every person so offered shall be admitted to give evidence, notwithstanding such person may or shall have an interest in the matter in question, or in the event of the trial of the issue, or of the suit or other proceeding in which he is offered as a witness. This section shall not be construed to apply to attesting witnesses to wills. (1866, c. 43, ss. 1, 4; C.C.P., c. 342; 1869-70, c. 177; 1871-2, c. 4; Code, ss. 589, 1350; Rev., ss. 1628, 1629; C.S., s. 1792.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-50 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 7 - Competency of Witnesses.|§ 8-50 - Parties competent as witnesses.

 8-50. Parties competent as witnesses.(a) On the trial of any issue, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any action, suit or other proceeding in court, or before any judge, justice, jury or other person having, by law, authority to hear and examine evidence, the parties themselves and the person in whose behalf any suit or other proceeding may be brought or defended, shall, except as otherwise provided, be competent and compellable to give evidence, either viva voce or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, in behalf of either or any of the parties to said action, suit or other proceeding. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to any action or other proceeding in any court instituted in consequence of adultery, or to any action for criminal conversation.(b), (c). Repealed by Session Laws 1967, c. 954, s. 4. (1866, c. 43, ss. 2, 3; Code, s. 1351; Rev., s. 1630; C.S., s. 1793; 1953, c. 885, s. 1; 1967, c. 954, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-50.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 7 - Competency of Witnesses.|§ 8-50.3 - Expired September 30, 2007.

 8-50.3: Expired September 30, 2007.
NC Gen Stat § 8-51.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 7 - Competency of Witnesses.|§ 8-51.1 - Dying declarations.

 8-51.1. Dying declarations.Dying declarations admissible in administrative proceedings shall be as provided in G.S. 8C-1, Rule 804. (1973, c. 464, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1037, s. 11.)
NC Gen Stat § 8-53 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 8 - Evidence|Article 7 - Competency of Witnesses.|§ 8-53 - Communications between health care provider and patient.

 8-53. Communications between health care provider and patient.No person, duly authorized to practice under Article 1 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, shall be required to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon, and no such information shall be considered public records under G.S. 132-1. Confidential information obtained in medical records shall be furnished only on the authorization of the patient, or if deceased, the executor, administrator, or, in the case of unadministered estates, the next of kin. Any resident or presiding judge in the district, either at the trial or prior thereto, or the Industrial Commission pursuant to law may, subject to G.S. 8-53.6, compel disclosure if in his opinion disclosure is necessary to a proper administration of justice. If the case is in district court the judge shall be a district court judge, and if the case is in superior court the judge shall be a superior court judge.  (1885, c. 159; Rev., s. 1621; C.S., s. 1798; 1969, c. 914; 1977, c. 1118; 1983, c. 410, ss. 1, 2; c. 471; 2019-191, s. 41.)