If it be proper for any writing, which has been admitted to record in a court of any county or corporation, to be admitted to record in the court of another county or corporation and the same, before being so admitted to record in the court last mentioned, be lost or mislaid, on affidavit of this fact, such court, or the clerk thereof, may admit to record a copy of such writing from the records of another court, certified by its clerk; and the copy so admitted shall have the same effect as if the original had been admitted to record at the time the copy was admitted.
Code 1919, § 5212.