"official copy" is a phrase that is commonly used in written English.
It typically refers to a document that is a certified or authenticated version of an original document. For example, "Please submit your application along with an official copy of your birth certificate."
The judge granted the motion to close the case on June 13, and Mr. Soloway received an official copy of the order on Wednesday.
An official copy of the decision has still not reached litigants and critical details remain unknown, among them when the ruling actually occurred.
They proclaimed their freedom boldly — "we must live independent or die," they wrote — but for decades, Haiti lacked its own official copy of those words.
Writer took a cab to City Hall where Mayor Ed Koch made the proclamation and presented the official copy of it to Bella Abzug.
Mr. Lewis, who had not received an official copy of the opinion, did not say whether his client would request a hearing before the State Supreme Court.
(A spokeswoman for the panel, contacted for the article several times, said the report had not been released, and declined to provide an official copy).
Prosecutors obtained official copies of the credit union records of Mr. Zimmerman, his wife and his sister.
It was the type in which a Baltimore printer issued the official copies of the United States Declaration of Independence.
He also had official copies made of the plays of the three great tragic dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
The change, discovered when the prototype was compared with its official copies, amounts only to some 50 micrograms, equal to the mass of a smallish grain of sand.
Congress ordered 201 official copies of the Declaration to be printed and distributed to surviving signers, families of the signers, General Lafayette, the president and other public servants.
