N.J.S.A. 2A:83-5 — Official record or report as evidence that person is missing, interned, etc.

2A:83-5. Official record or report as evidence that person is missing, interned, etc. An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleagured, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by such board or by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by the federal act referred to in this article or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as presumptive evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleagured, besieged or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344.

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