North Dakota Code 31-09-01 – Statutes, codes, decisions, when admissible as evidence of laws of foreign jurisdictions
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Books purporting to be printed or published under the authority of any other state, territory, or foreign country and to contain the statutes, codes, or other written law of such state, territory, or country, or proved to be admitted commonly in the tribunals of such state, territory, or country as evidence of the written law thereof, are admissible in this state as evidence of such law. The unwritten or common law of any other state, territory, or country may be proved as a fact by parol evidence and the books of reports of cases adjudged in the courts of any such state, territory, or country also may be admitted as presumptive evidence of such law.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 31-09-01
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- 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.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37