Minn. Stat. § 600.01
Business
The term "business" shall include every kind of business, profession, occupation, calling or operation of institutions, whether carried on for profit or not.
Minnesota Statutes Chapter 600 — Documents as Evidence
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Minn. Stat. § 600.02
Business Records as Evidence
A record of an act, condition, or event shall, insofar as relevant, be competent evidence if the custodian or other qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of its preparation, and if it was made in the regular course of business, at or near the time of the act, condition, or event, and if, in the opini…
Minn. Stat. § 600.03
Interpretation
Sections 600.01 to 600.03 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact them.
Minn. Stat. § 600.04
Citation, Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act
Sections 600.01 to 600.04 may be cited as the "Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act."
Minn. Stat. § 600.05
Account Books; Loose-Leaf System
When a party in any cause or proceeding shall produce at the trial the party's account books, and prove that the same are the party's account books kept for that purpose, that they contain the original entries for moneys paid, goods or other articles delivered, services performed or material furnished; that such entrie…
Minn. Stat. § 600.06
Book Entries by a Person Deceased
Entries made in any book by a person now dead authorized to make the same, may be received as evidence in a case proper for the admission of such book as evidence on proof that the same are in the deceased person's handwriting and in a book kept for such entries, without further verification.
Minn. Stat. § 600.07
Books Proved by Deposition
When such books or entries therein are proved by deposition, the production of the books before the officer taking the deposition shall be equivalent to producing the same at the trial, and copies of the entries therein contained desired to be introduced in evidence may be attached to the deposition as exhibits, and sh…
Minn. Stat. § 600.08
Letterpress Copies
The production of a letterpress copy of any letter, before the officer taking the deposition, shall be equivalent to producing the same at the trial and, when so produced, a copy thereof may be attached to the deposition as an exhibit, and shall be evidence of like force and effect as the letterpress copy itself; but s…
Minn. Stat. § 600.09
Affidavits, Taken Out of State
All oaths and affidavits taken out of the state before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and certified by the court administrator of a court of record, may be used and read upon the argument of any motion, with the same effect as if taken within this state. If such affidavit be taken before a notary public or…
Minn. Stat. § 600.10
Affidavit of Publication
When notice of any application to a court or judicial officer is required by law to be published in a newspaper, an affidavit by the printer of such newspaper, or the printer's lead supervisor or clerk, annexed to a printed copy of such notice taken from the newspaper in which it was published, specifying the times whe…
Minn. Stat. § 600.11
Printer's Affidavit
The original affidavit of the printer of any newspaper, or of the printer's lead supervisor or court administrator, of the publication of any summons, notice, order, resolution, or other advertisement which by law is required or authorized to be published in such newspaper, and copies of the same, or of the record ther…
Minn. Stat. § 600.12
Affidavit of Officer of Historical Society as to Publication
When a legal notice appears in any newspaper, purporting to have been published in this state prior to 1900 and filed with the state historical society, the affidavit of any officer of such society, setting forth a copy of such notice, and stating that it is a true copy of the same as contained in such newspaper, and n…
Minn. Stat. § 600.13
Original Records; Probate Court Decrees; Certified Copies
The original record made by any public officer in the performance of official duty shall be prima facie evidence of the facts required or permitted by law to be recorded by the officer. A copy of such record, or of any document which is made evidence by law and is preserved in the office or place where the same was req…
Minn. Stat. § 600.135
Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records
Subdivision 1. Records; destruction, photographic copies. If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any ac…
Minn. Stat. § 600.14
Instruments Acknowledged; Evidence
Every written instrument, except promissory notes, bills of exchange, and the last wills of deceased persons, may be acknowledged in the manner now provided by law for taking the acknowledgment of deeds, and the certificate of the proper officer endorsed thereon shall entitle such instrument to be read in evidence in a…
Minn. Stat. § 600.15
Written Instruments; Signatures; Pleading and Proof
Every written instrument purporting to have been signed or executed by any person shall be subject to the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, section 336.3-308(a).
Minn. Stat. § 600.16
Endorsement of Money Received
An endorsement of money received on any promissory note, which appears to have been made when it was against the interest of the holder to make it, is prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.
Minn. Stat. § 600.17
Copies of Government Records and Documents
(1) Copies of any books, records, papers or other documents in any of the executive departments of the United States government, or of any corporation all of the stock of which is beneficially owned by the United States, either directly or indirectly, shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals thereof, wh…
Minn. Stat. § 600.18
Federal Census; Population
The governor shall obtain from the director of the federal census such certified copies thereof as will show the population of the several political divisions of this state, which certified copies shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, and thereafter the several political divisions of the state for all…
Minn. Stat. § 600.19
Abstracts of Title to Be Received in Evidence
In any action wherein the title to real property is in controversy, any abstract of title thereof, duly certified by any bonded abstracter or by any county recorder of any county wherein such real property is situated, shall be received as prima facie evidence of all instruments therein referred to, together with the r…
Minn. Stat. § 600.20
Marriage Certificate and Record
The original certificate and record of marriage, made by the person solemnizing such marriage as prescribed by law, and the record thereof or a duly certified copy of such record, shall be prima facie evidence of such marriage.
Minn. Stat. § 600.21
Copies of Record of Death; Recordation
In all cases of joint tenancy in lands, and in all cases where any estate, title interest in, or lien upon, lands, has been or may be created, which estate, title interest, or lien was, or is, to continue only during the life of any person named or described in the instrument by which such estate, title, interest, or l…
Minn. Stat. § 600.22
Instruments, Records Thereof, and Copies
All original instruments and certified copies thereof authorized by law to be recorded and, if recorded, the record thereof, or a duly certified transcript of such record, shall be received in evidence without further proof, subject to rebuttal.
Minn. Stat. § 600.23
Recorders
Subdivision 1. Deposit of papers. Every county recorder, upon being paid the legal fees therefor, may receive and deposit in the office any instruments or papers which are offered for that purpose and, if requested, shall give to the person depositing the same a receipt therefor. Subd. 2. Endorsed and filed. Any such i…
Minn. Stat. § 600.24
Finding of Presumed Death Under Federal Missing Persons Act
A written finding of presumed death, made by the Secretary of Defense or other officer or employee of the United States authorized to make such finding, pursuant to the following provisions of the Federal Missing Persons Act, United States Code, title 5, section 5565; United States Code, title 10, section 1507; and Uni…
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