Delaware § 109 - Registry of births, deaths, burials and marriages; certified copies as evidence.

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§ 109. Registry of births, deaths, burials and marriages; certified copies as evidence.

The registry kept in any religious corporation’s books of marriages, births, deaths or burials shall be evidence in all courts. A copy of any entry, certified under the corporate seal and hand of the chair, shall be evidence.

26 Del. Laws, c. 89, §  8;  Code 1915, §  2171;  Code 1935, §  2478;  27 Del. C. 1953, §  109;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1; 

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