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§58-83.
§58-83.
When a lost or destroyed will is established, the provisions thereof
must be distinctly stated and certified by the judge of the district
court, under his hand and the seal of the court, and the certificate
must be filed and recorded as wills are filed and recorded, and
letters testamentary or of administration with the will annexed, must
be issued thereon in the same manner as upon wills produced and duly
proved; if the court has admitted into evidence a copy of the lost or
destroyed will and finds that the copy distinctly states the
provisions of the will, the court may certify the copy of the will as
distinctly stating the provisions of the will; the testimony must be
reduced to writing; signed, certified and filed as in other cases, and
shall be admissible as evidence in any subsequent proceeding.
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