Attested or certified copies of wills, or the records thereof, by the proper officer, may be given in evidence in the same manner as the originals.
Code 1858, § 2198 (deriv. Acts 1784 (Oct.), ch. 10, § 6); Shan., § 3930; mod. Code 1932, § 8140; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-209.
Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 16, 371.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 25 Tenn. Juris., Wills, §§ 49, 50, 54, 56.