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28 USC Sec. 1738 01/02/01
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TITLE 28 – JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART V – PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 115 – EVIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY
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Sec. 1738. State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings;
full faith and credit
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The Acts of the legislature of any State, Territory, or
Possession of the United States, or copies thereof, shall be
authenticated by affixing the seal of such State, Territory or
Possession thereto.
The records and judicial proceedings of any court of any such
State, Territory or Possession, or copies thereof, shall be proved
or admitted in other courts within the United States and its
Territories and Possessions by the attestation of the clerk and
seal of the court annexed, if a seal exists, together with a
certificate of a judge of the court that the said attestation is in
proper form.
Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so
authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every
court within the United States and its Territories and Possessions
as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory
or Possession from which they are taken.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 947.)