Where any book containing judgments, decrees, orders or proceedings of a court, or proceedings at rules, or any book containing the record of wills, deeds or other papers, or where any paper filed in a clerk's office, is lost, the clerk in whose office such book or paper was, upon the production to him of any original paper which was recorded in such book, or any attested copy of the record thereof, or of an attested copy of anything else in such book, or of any paper so filed, shall, on application, record or file the same anew. The record shall show whether it is made from an original or a copy, and how the paper from which it is made was authenticated or attested. Such record shall have the same effect that the record or paper for which it is substituted would have had.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 39. Records and Papers
Article 3. Reconstruction of Lost Records and Papers
§39-3-1. Admission to Record of Certified Copy When Original Writing Lost, Mislaid or Destroyed
§39-3-2. Lost Records or Papers Recorded or Filed Anew
§39-3-3. Recordation of Certified Copies at Instance of County Court When Record Lost or Destroyed
§39-3-4. Loss of Court Records; Reentries
§39-3-5. Loss of Original Papers in Any Cause or Appellate Court Record; Effect of Papers Supplied
§39-3-6. When Books or Papers Deemed Lost
§39-3-7. Procedure to Prove Contents of Lost Papers or Records -- Generally
§39-3-8. Procedure to Prove Contents of Lost Papers or Records -- Right to Rehearing
§39-3-9. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Action by County Clerk
§39-3-10. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Record
§39-3-11. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Publication of Notice
§39-3-12. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Subjects of Inquiry
§39-3-13. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Powers of Clerk; Death, etc., of Clerk
§39-3-14. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Fees Payable to Clerk and Witnesses
§39-3-16. Taking Testimony as to Lost Records -- Admissibility of Depositions or Copies