Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 9. AUTHENTICATION AND IDENTIFICATION · Article 2. SPECIFIC TYPES OF RECORDS AND EVIDENCE

24-9-922. Proof of laws, records, nonjudicial records, or books of other states, territories, or possessions; full faith and credit.

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The acts of the legislature of any other state, territory, or possession of the United States, the records and judicial proceedings of any court of any such state, territory, or possession, and the nonjudicial records or books kept in the public offices in any such state, territory, or possession, if properly authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within this state as they have by law or usage in the courts of such state, territory, or possession from which they are taken.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 24-9-922, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Law reviews

For survey article on domestic relations, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 113 (1982). For article, “Dancing with the Big Boys: Georgia Adopts (most of) the Federal Rules of Evidence,” see 63 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2011).

Other notes

History of Section.: Former Code Section 24-7-24, which contained comparable provisions to this Code section, as effective January 1, 2013, was derived in part from 28 U.S.C. § 1738.

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