Folsom v. Blood
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Debt, by Orrin Folsom against Charles A. Blood, on judgment rendered in court of common pleas, Massachusetts. The plaintiff offered in evidence a full copy of the record of the proceedings upon which said judgment was founded, and of said judgment with the following attestation: “All which premises we have held good by the tenor of these presents to be exemplified.
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Debt, by Orrin Folsom against Charles A. Blood, on judgment rendered in court of common pleas, Massachusetts. The plaintiff offered in evidence a full copy of the record of the proceedings upon which said judgment was founded, and of said judgment with the following attestation: “All which premises we have held good by the tenor of these presents to be exemplified. In testimony whereof we have caused the seal of our superior court to be affixed. ——j “Witness, Lincoln F. Brigham, Esquire, chief justice of the L. s. V superior court within and for the county and commonwealth —.— J aforesaid…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state 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 be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, as the case may be, that said attestation is in due form.” 1 U. S. Stat. 122; Brightley’s Dig. 265, sec. 9.
The certificate of such judge or magistrate, being the evidence prescribed by law that due form has been observed in the attestation, is at once indispensable and conclusive. Ferguson v.…
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