980 EVIDENCE, [ART. 35

1904, art. 35, sec. 41. 1888, art. 35, sec. 37. 1860, art. 37, sec. 36.
1813, ch. 164.

41. No sentence, judgment or decree, final or interlocutory, of any
judge, court, board, council or tribunal, having or exercising municipal,
admiralty or prize jurisdiction without the limits of the United States
and its territories shall be conclusive evidence in any case or controversy
in the courts of this State of any fact, matter or thing therein contained,
stated or expressed, except of the acts or doings of such foreign judge,
court, board, council or tribunal; provided, that nothing herein con-
tained shall impair or destroy the legal effects of any such foreign
sentence, judgment or decree on the property affected or intended to
be affected thereby.

The sentence of condemnation of a foreign prize court is evidence of the
facts which it purports to decide in an action on a policy of insurance on the
thing condemned; and prior to this section, was conclusive evidence thereof.
The proof upon which such sentence may have been predicated, is not per se
admissible in such collateral action. Maryland Insurance Co. v. Bathurst, 5
G. & J. 220. And see Taylor v. Phelps, 1 H. & G. 492.

Ibid. sec. 42. 1888, art. 35, sec. 38. 1860, art. 37, sec. 37.
1785, ch. 46, sec. 2.

42. The copy of the record or register of any deed or other instru-
ment of writing which the laws of the State or country where the same
may be executed require to be recorded or registered and which has
been recorded agreeably to such laws, under the hand of the keeper
of such record or register and the seal of the court or office in which
such record or register has been made, or a copy of any deed or other
instrument of writing lodged for safe keeping in any office or court
agreeably to the laws of the State or country as aforesaid and certified
as aforesaid shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court of this
State to prove such deed or instrument of writing.

Before an assignment for the benefit of creditors executed in Ohio and not
in conformity with our law, is admissible in evidence here, it should be
proved that the assignment was executed and delivered, and required to be
recorded in the court which certified it. De Rlesthal v. Walton, 66 Md. 473.

A certified copy from the navy department under the hand of the secretary
and the seal of the department, is admissible in evidence under this section.
Maurice v. Worden, 54 Md. 259.

When the record itself can be produced, either such record, or a certified
copy of the deed, is evidence. Preston v. Evans, 56 Md. 495.

As to the admissibility in evidence of certified copies of foreign wills, and
as to wills not required (by a foreign law) to be recorded, see art 93, sec.
351, et seq.

Ibid. sec. 43. 1898, ch. 478, sec. 38 A.

43. The copy of the record or register of any corporation, which the
laws of any foreign country where the same may be incorporated require
to be recorded or registered and which has been recorded agreeably
to such laws and which is certified under the hand of the keeper of
such record or register and the seal of the court or office in which said
record or register is kept, and which is also certified to be in due form
and by the proper officer making reference to the act under which
corporations are formed under the laws of such foreign country, shall