Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 5 Evidence - Chapter 5.44 Proof -- Public Documents

5.44.010 Court records and proceedings -- When admissible
The records and proceedings of any court of the United States, or any state or territory, shall be admissible in evidence in all cases in ...

5.44.020 Foreign judgments for debt -- Faith to be accorded
Judgment for debt rendered in any other state or any territory against any person or persons residents of this state at the time of the ...

5.44.030 Defenses available in suit on foreign judgment
The same defense to suits on judgments rendered without such personal service may be made by the judgment debtor, which might have been set up ...

5.44.040 Certified copies of public records as evidence
Copies of all records and documents on record or on file in the offices of the various departments of the United States and of this ...

5.44.050 Foreign statutes as evidence
Printed copies of the statute laws of any state, territory, or foreign government, if purporting to have been published under the authority of the respective ...

5.44.060 Certified copies of recorded instruments as evidence
Whenever any deed, conveyance, bond, mortgage or other writing, shall have been recorded or filed in pursuance of law, copies of record of such deed, ...

5.44.070 Certified copies of instruments, or transcripts of county commissioners' proceedings
Copies of all deeds or other instruments of writing, maps, documents and papers which by law are to be filed or recorded in the office ...

5.44.080 City or town ordinances as evidence
All ordinances passed by the legislative body of any city or town shall be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose by ...

5.44.090 Copy of instrument restoring civil rights as evidence
The secretary of state and the clerk of the superior court, shall, upon demand and the payment of the fee required by law, issue a ...

5.44.130 Seal, how affixed
A seal of court or public office, when required to any writ, process, or proceeding to authenticate a copy of any record or document, may ...

5.44.140 Proceedings for determination of family relationships -- Presumption
In any proceeding regarding the determination of a family relationship, including but not limited to the parent and child relationship and the marriage relationship, a ...