Public record
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
A record required by law to be kept, or necessary to be kept in the discharge of a duty imposed by law, or directed by law to serve as a memorial and evidence of something written, said, or done.
See 175 Ind. 132, Ann. Cas. 1913B, 1271, 93 N. E. 666.