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A self authenticating document, under the Law of Evidence in the United States , is any Document that can be admitted into evidence at a trial without proof being submitted to support the claim that the document is what it appears to be. Several categories of documents are deemed to be self-authenticating:

#Certified copy of public or business records;
#Official publications of government agencies;
#Newspaper articles;
#Trade inscriptions, such as labels on products;
#Acknowledged documents (wherein the signer also gets a paper Notarized ); and
#Commercial paper under the Uniform Commercial Code .