Such a conditional sales contract, when the execution thereof has been acknowledged or proved before an officer having authority to take and certify the acknowledgment of conveyances and when such contract has been duly recorded, must be received in evidence without other proof of execution; and, if the original of such contract is lost or destroyed, or the party offering in evidence a certified transcript has not the custody or control thereof, a certified transcript from the record thereof must be received in evidence without other proof of the execution of the original.
Ala. Code § 35-4-98 (1975)