38-7-3: [Abstracts of title; admissibility; explanation; contradiction.]

Any abstract of the title to real estate, located in the state of New Mexico, certified to as correct by the secretary, and under the seal of any title abstract company, incorporated and doing business under the laws of the state, or by an individual bonded abstracter, shall be received in all of the courts of this state as evidence of the things recited therein, in the same manner, and to a like extent, that the public records are now admitted, and such abstract may be explained or contradicted in the same manner and to the same extent as such records may now be.