6 Guam Code Ann. § 4208
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- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
A copy of the judicial record of a foreign country is also admissible in evidence, upon proof:
1. That the copy offered has been compared by the witness with the original, and is an exact transcript of the whole of it;
1. That the copy offered has been compared by the witness with the original, and is an exact transcript of the whole of it;
2. That such original was in the custody of the clerk of the court or other legal keeper of the same; and
3. That the copy is duly attested by a seal which is proved to be the seal of the court wherein the record remains, if it be the record of a court, or if there be no such seal, or if it be not a record of a court, by the signature of the legal keeper of the original.
SOURCE: CCP § 1907
CROSS-REFERENCES: § 902 of Div. 1.
COMMENT: This Section is an additional means of admitting official records to that provided by § 902. Most likely, this method would be used when it is necessary to translate the official record from some foreign language into English.