49-5 - Officer of another state or country may take affidavit; authentication.
§ 49-5. Officer of another state or country may take affidavit;authentication.
An affidavit may also be made before any officer of any state or countryauthorized by its laws to administer an oath, and shall be deemed dulyauthenticated if it be subscribed by such officer and there be annexed to ita certificate of the clerk or any other officer of a court of record of suchstate or country, under an official seal, verifying the genuineness of thesignature of the first mentioned officer and his authority to administer anoath, except that when such affidavit is made before a notary public of suchother state or country the same shall be deemed and taken to be dulyauthenticated if it be subscribed by such notary with his official sealattached without being certified to by any clerk or other officer of a courtof record.
(Code 1919, § 275.)