Section 89-5-9 - Copies of certain records may be recorded

A copy of the record of any instrument of writing affecting property in this state, and which has been legally recorded in any other state of the United States, or in a foreign country, when certified by the clerk or other officer in whose custody the record is, under his seal of office, if he have one, may be recorded in this state in the same way and with like effect as if it had been executed and acknowledged in this state.Codes, 1880, § 1222; 1892, § 2469; 1906, § 2803; Hemingway's 1917, § 2304; 1930, § 2144; 1942, § 865.