Whether or not a referenced lease contract is an original document or a photocopy of the original is irrelevant — so long as the photocopy is an unaltered duplicate of the original document.
The ‘contract’ is the document agreed upon and signed by all parties, not the format of the paperwork.
If the original document has been altered fraudulently, a court action (and then proof of alteration during that court action) will be required to enforce the original covenants of the document.
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