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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A true transcript of an original writing. Exemplifications are copies verified by the great seal or by the seal of a court.
1 Gilb. Ev. 19.
Examined copies are those which have been compared with the original or with an official record thereof. Office copies are those made by officers intrusted with the originals and authorized for that purpose. The papers need not be exchanged and read alternately; 2 Taunt. 470; 1 Stark. 183; 4 Campb. 372; 1 C. & P. 578. An examined copy of the books of an unincorporated bank is not evidence per se; Ridgway v. Bank, 12 S. & R. (Pa.) 256, 14 Am. Dec. 681; Vance v. Reardon, 2 N. & M'C.
299; 1 Greenl. Ev. § 508.
Copies cannot be given in evidence, unless proof is made that the original is lost or in the power of the opposite party, and, in the latter case, that notice has been given him to produce the original; 1 Greenl.
Ev. § 50S.
A translation of a book is not a copy; Stowe v. Thomas, 2 Wall. Jr. 547; 2 Am. L. Reg. 229, Fed. Cas. No. 13,514; a copy of a book means a transcript of the entire work; Rogers v. Jewett, 12 Mo. Law Rep. N. S. 339, Fed. Cas. No. 12,012. As to copies mechanically made being originals, see International Harvester Co. of America v. Elfstrom, 101 Minn. 263, 112 N. W. 252, 12 L. R. A. (N. S.) 343, 118 Am. St. Rep. 626, 11 Ann. Cas. 107.