Office-Copy

A transcript of a record or proceeding filed in an office established by law, certified under the seal of the proper officer. A copy made by an officer of the court, bound by law to make it, is equivalent to an exemplification, though it is sometimes called an “office copy”; Steph. Dig. Ev. art. 77. Copies of public records, whether judicial or otherwise, made by a public officer authorized by law to make them, are often termed “office copies,” e. g. copies of recorded deeds; Elwell v. Cunningham, 74 Me. 127. A copy made by an officer of the court, who is authorized to make it by a rule of court, but not required by law to make it, is equivalent to an exemplification in the same cause and court, but in other causes or courts is not admissible unless it can be proved as an examined copy; Steph. Dig. Ev. art. 78. These are called “office copies”; Kellogg v. Kellogg, 0 Barb. (N. Y.) 130. Office copies are said to be secondary evidence; Steph. Dig. Ev.