ART. 35] FOREIGN DEBTS AND INSTRUMENTS. 1103

Proof of Foreign Debts and other Instruments.

1888, art. 35, sec. 36. 1860, art. 37, sec. 35. 1785, ch 46, sec. 1.

40. An exemplification of the record, under the hand of the
keeper of the same and the seal of the court or office where
such record may be made, shall be good and sufficient evidence
in any court of this State to prove any debt of record made or
entered in any other of the United States, or in any foreign
country.

Campbell v. Morris, 3 H. & McH. 535. Ward v. Morris, 4 H. & McH. 330.
DeSobry v. DeLaistre, 2 H. & J. 191. Owings v. Nicholson, 4 H. & J. 66.
Barney v. Patterson, 6 H & J. 182. Drake v. Hudson, 7 H. & J. 400.
Wernwag v. Pawling, 6 G. & J. 500. Brengle v. McClellan, 7 G. & J. 434.
Buchanan v. Lorman, 3 Gill, 51. Budd v. Brooke, 3 Gill, 198. Bank of
U. S v. Merchants' Bank, 7 Gill, 426. Hall v. Sewell, 9 Gill, 146. Parker
v. Sedwick, 5 Md. 281. Case v. McGee, 8 Md. 9. Hughes v. Davis, 8 Md.
271. Harryman v. Schryver, 52 Md. 77.

Ibid. 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 exer-
cising municipal, admiralty or prize jurisdiction without the
limits of the United States and its territories shall be conclu-
sive 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
contained 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.

Taylor v. McNeal, 1 H. & O. 492. Karthaus v. Owings, 2 G. & J. 445.
Md. Ins Co. v. Bathurst, 5 O. & J. 159. Groshon v. Thomas, 20 Md. 235.

Ibid. 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
instrument 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 reg-
ister has been made, or a copy of any deed or other instru-
ment 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