Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-2-33

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

On request of the chief of the division of land surveys, all probate judges or other recorders of deeds, mortgages, or other instruments dealing with any interest in real property, together with all departments, boards, or agencies of state government, county or city government shall furnish to the division of land surveys certified copies of desired records which are in their custody. This service shall be free of cost when possible; otherwise it shall be at actual cost of reproduction of the records. On the same basis of cost, the division shall furnish records within its custody to other agencies or departments of state, county, or city, certifying them. Copies of records of the division, when so certified by the chief of the division, shall be admitted in evidence, without further identification, in any court proceeding in the state if the substance of the record is properly admissible in the proceeding.