AUTHENTICATION
The confirmation rendered by an officer of a court
that a certified copy of a judgment is what it pur-
ports to be, an accurate duplicate of the original
judgment. In the law of evidence, the act of estab-
lishing a statute, record, or other document, or a
certified copy of such an instrument as genuine
and official so that it can be used in a lawsuit to
prove an issue in dispute.
Self-authentication of particular categories
of documents is provided by federal and state
RULES OF EVIDENCE. A deed or conveyance that
has been acknowledged by its signers before a
NOTARY PUBLIC, a certified copy of a public
record, or an official publication of the govern-
ment are examples of self-authenticating docu-
