There is a hearsay exception for public records of documents affecting an interest in property.

Cf. Rock v. Arkansas, 483 U.S. 44, pin? (1987) (held, trial court violated homicide defendant's constitutional rights by barring her from testifying about the circumstances of the killing on the ground that....The right to due process guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibits the exclusion of probative exculpatory evidence in criminal trials when exclusion of such evidence is unreasonable, arbitrary, or disproportionate.

United States v. Fabric Garment Co., 366 F.2d 530, 534 (2d Cir. 1966) (holding, in federal government's conversion action against contractors, that evidence of contractors' prior criminal convictions was admissible because....There is a hearsay exception for evidence of a final judgment, entered after a trial or upon a plea of guilty (but not upon a plea of nolo contendere), adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year, to prove any fact essential to sustain the judgment, but not including, when offered by the Government in a criminal prosecution for purposes other than impeachment, judgments against persons other than the accused.

Fed. R. Evid. 406 ("whether corroborated or not").The admissibility of habit does not depend on corroboration.