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...n section 2729.02 of the Revised Code shall be paid a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum and hold office for one year from the day of appointment.

...ring the records of the probate court shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the probate judge.

...When real estate has been sold by a sheriff, executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, trustee, master commissioner, special master, or other person appointed or authorized by the court, and the record of the action in which such sale was made, or the papers or accounts filed by an executor, or his successor, of a will authorizing a sale of real estate, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commot...

...ds sold at delinquent or forfeited tax sales are not prima-facie evidence of title in the purchaser of such lands, nor is there any presumption in favor of such tax deeds or sales when the records of the sale and the proceedings upon which it was based have been lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion.

...r other instrument conveying title to real estate, authorized or required to be recorded, or a will and the probate thereof, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, and the original of such deed or other instrument, or will and the probate thereof, or a certified copy thereof, cannot be found, any person claiming title to such real estate or any interest under such will may bring an action in the cour...

...n section 2729.07 of the Revised Code shall be the same as are provided by law for like services in civil cases, and shall be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the court.

...and declared by the court, said court shall require notice to be given by publication for six weeks upon such days, not less than once a week, and in such newspapers as it directs, of the filing and prayer of such application, that it will stand for hearing upon some day fixed by the court, and requiring all persons interested to appear on such day and show cause why the the application should not be granted. The cou...

...mmon pleas directs by entry on its journal, the court shall proceed to hear and determine whether the papers produced before it pursuant to an application by a board of county commissioners under section 2729.09 of the Revised Code, or any of them, are accurate or substantial copies of the lost or destroyed records, fairly and honestly made. In considering the accuracy of such copies, the court shall hear any evidenc...

...n section 2729.10 of the Revised Code shall be fixed and allowed by the court of common pleas. Other costs under sections 2729.11 to 2729.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be the same as fixed by law for similar services, and all costs for restoring lost road records shall be paid by the county, except as provided in section 2729.12 of the Revised Code.

... of the Revised Code, and before the final determination thereof, it appears to the court of common pleas that any person has in his possession or under his control papers purporting to be copies of a lost road record, or the originals from which they were made, and such person refuses to produce them to the court, the court shall issue a rule requiring such person to show cause why he does not produce such papers a...

...As to every county road the records of which have been lost or destroyed, and which records are not reproduced under sections 2729.09 to 2729.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the center of the road as fenced on April 12, 1884, is prima facie the true center, and the width of such road is prima facie sixty feet.

...of a court in this state, in which a final judgment has been rendered, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, upon the application of a party interested therein, such court may grant an order authorizing such record or part thereof to be supplied or replaced: (A) By a certified copy of such original record, or part thereof, when it can be obtained; (B) By a certified copy of the record in the supre...

...f a court in this state in which the final judgment has been rendered, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, and such loss cannot be supplied or replaced as provided in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code, any person interested therein may make a written application to the court to which such record belongs, setting forth its substance, which shall be verified in the manner provided for the verifica...

...d the substance or effect thereof material to the preservation of the rights of the parties thereto, it shall make an order allowing a record. Such record shall recite the substance and effect of the lost or destroyed record, or part thereof, shall be recorded in the court, and shall have the same effect as the original record, so far as concerns the rights of the parties making the application, persons served with s...

... admit in evidence any complete or partial abstract of the record mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, docket entries, or indexes, and other written evidence of the contents or effect of such records, and published reports concerning the actions or proceeding mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, when the court is of opinion that such abstracts, writings, and publications were fairly and hone...

...o which either party has a right to appeal on questions of law, the time intervening between the filing of the application mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code and the final order of the court on the application shall be excluded in computing the time within which such appeal may be taken.

...n section 2729.14 of the Revised Code shall be the same as provided for like services in civil actions. Where the record is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, civil commotion, or other cause, the cost of replacing and restoring it, as provided in sections 2729.14 to 2729.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the court.

...When the original papers and records mentioned in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code have been saved from destruction, riot, civil commotion, or other cause and the appearance dockets have been destroyed, and when such saved records should be recopied, the court of common pleas may order its clerk to restore such original papers upon the appearance docket, and may order the recopying of the records, the replacing of...

...Remedies and rules of evidence provided by sections 2729.07 to 2729.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are cumulative to those otherwise provided by law.

... name of the state to an inferior tribunal, a corporation, board, or person, commanding the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station.

...The writ of mandamus may be allowed by the supreme court, the court of appeals, or the court of common pleas and shall be issued by the clerk of the court in which the application is made. Such writ may issue on the information of the party beneficially interested. Such writ shall contain a copy of the petition, verification, and order of allowance.

... mandamus may require an inferior tribunal to exercise its judgment, or proceed to the discharge of any of its functions, but it cannot control judicial discretion.

...rder to show cause why it should not be allowed, or allow the writ without notice.

...The writ of mandamus must not be issued when there is a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law.

...ct is clear and it is apparent that no valid excuse can be given for not doing it, a court, in the first instance, may allow a peremptory mandamus. In all other cases an alternative writ must first be issued on the allowance of the court, or a judge thereof.