D.C. Code § 14-502: Records of deeds, instruments, and wills.

Under the hand of the keeper of a record and the seal of the court or office in which the record was made:

(1)

a copy of the record of a deed, or other written instrument not of a testamentary character, where the laws of the State, territory, commonwealth, possession or country where it was recorded require such a record, and that has been recorded agreeably to those laws; and

(2)

a copy of a will that the laws require to be admitted to probate and record by judicial decree, and of the decree of the court admitting the will to probate and record —