public writings

public writings
The acts of public functionaries, in the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of government, including the transactions which official persons are required to enter in books or registers, in the course of their public duties, and which occur within the circle of their own personal knowledge and observation. (Greenleaf on Evidence, section 470.) See public record.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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