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KRS 422.250

Reentering instrument -- Effect of

Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky

(1) If any record book, containing judgments, decrees, orders, executions, or proceedings of a court, is lost, destroyed, or becomes illegible, and can be again entered correctly by means of any writing, the court may order its clerk to have the matter reentered. The reentered record, when approved by the court, shall have the same effect as the original.

(2) If any record book of written instruments, or any such instrument, filed in any clerk's office is lost, destroyed, or becomes illegible, the clerk shall upon the production of any original paper which was recorded in the lost book, or an attested copy from the record, or of anything else in said book, or of any paper so filed, on the request of the person interested, rerecord the instrument and shall certify on the record whether it was recorded from the original or a copy, and how it was authenticated. Such record shall be prima facie evidence.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.