Oral Evidence of a Foreign Record

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; 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.