46:16-9 - Copies of deeds or instruments recorded in other states, territories or District of Columbia
46:16-9. Copies of deeds or instruments recorded in other states, territories or District of Columbia When any deed or instrument of the nature or description set forth in section 46:16-1 of this title shall have been recorded in the public records of any state of the United States, territory thereof or the District of Columbia, or any county thereof, in accordance with the laws of such state, territory or district, and any person shall, for the purpose of making title to any real estate or other property in this state, or of manifesting such title, desire to have the same recorded in this state, the county recording officer of any county of this state in which such real estate or other property may be situate, upon an exemplified copy of the record of such deed or instrument and of the certificates of acknowledgment or proof thereof being filed in his office, exemplified and attested as a true copy in the manner required by the laws of the state, territory or district in which the same shall have been the theretofore recorded, may record such copy, together with the exemplifications thereof, in the proper books of record in his office, whether or not the acknowledgment or proof or certificate of the same contains any errors or imperfections, or does or does not conform in all respects with the requirements of the laws of this state.
Any record made under authority of this section, shall thereafter have the same effect as to notice, and any such record or certified copies thereof shall be received in evidence in the same manner, as if the original deed or instrument had been duly acknowledged or proved, certified and recorded instead of such exemplified copy.