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View Consolidated Chapter [RTF] [PDF]
Article 1 – Definitions and Other General Provisions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-1-1. Definitions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-1-2. Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 88, s. 2. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 2 – Jurisdiction for Probate of Wills and Administration of Estates of Decedents. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-2-1. Clerk of superior court. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-2-2. Assistant clerk of superior court. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-2-3. Jurisdiction where clerk interested. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 3 – Venue for Probate of Wills and Administration of Estates of Decedents. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-3-1. Proper county. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-3-2. Proceedings to determine venue. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-3-3. Procedure after determination of improper appointment. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-3-4. Liability of personal representative appointed in improper county. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-3-5. Waiver of venue. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 4 – Qualification and Disqualification for Letters Testamentary and Letters of Administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-4-1. Order of persons qualified to serve. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-4-2. Persons disqualified to serve as personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 5 – Renunciation by Personal Representative [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-5-1. Renunciation by executor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-5-2. Renunciation of right to administer. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 6 – Appointment of Personal Representative. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-6-1. Application for letters; grant of letters. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-6-2. Letters issued without notice; exceptions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-6-3. Appointment of successor to personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-6-4. Right to contest appointment; procedure. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-6-5. Letters not subject to collateral attack. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 7 – Oath. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 8 – Bond. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-1. Bond required before letters issue; when bond not required. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-1.1. Deposited money; exclusion in computing amount of bond. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-2. Provisions of bond. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-3. Modification of bond requirements. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-4. Failure to give additional bond; letters revoked. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-5. Rights of surety in danger of loss. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-8-6. Action against obligors on bond of personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 9 – Revocation of Letters. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-1. Revocation after hearing. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-2. Summary revocation. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-3. Effect of revocation. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-4. Appeal; stay effected. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-5. Interlocutory orders. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-6. Appointment of successor to personal representative or collector whose letters have been revoked; when not required. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-9-7. Rights and duties devolve on successor. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 10 – Resignation. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-1. Clerk’s power to accept resignation. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-2. Contents of petition; notice. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-3. Statement of account; record of conduct. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-4. Hearing; order. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-5. When resignation becomes effective. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-6. Appeal; stay effected. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-7. Rights and duties devolve on successor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-10-8. When appointment of successor to personal representative who has resigned is not required. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 11 – Collectors. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-11-1. Appointment and qualifications of collectors. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-11-2. Oath and bond. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-11-3. Duties and powers of collectors. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-11-4. When collectors’ powers cease; settlement of accounts. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-11-5. Compensation. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 12 – Public Administrator. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-1. Appointment and term. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-2. Oath of office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-3. Qualification and bond. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-4. When public administrator shall apply for letters. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-5. Powers and duties. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-6. Removal from office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-7. Procedure after removal from office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-12-8. Compensation. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 13 – Representative’s Powers, Duties and Liabilities. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-1. Time of accrual of duties and powers. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-2. General duties; relation to persons interested in estate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-3. Powers of a personal representative or fiduciary. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-4. Continuance of farming operations of deceased persons. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-5. Personal representatives hold in joint tenancy. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-6. Exercise of powers of joint personal representatives by one or more than one. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-7. Powers and duties of successor personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-8. Powers and duties of administrator with will annexed. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-9. Powers of surviving personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-13-10. Liability of personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 14 – Notice to Creditors. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-14-1. Notice for claims. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-14-1.1. Validation of certain notices. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-14-2. Proof of notice. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-14-3. Personal notice to creditor. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 15 – Assets; Discovery of Assets. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-1. Assets of the estate generally. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-2. Title and possession of property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-3. Nonexoneration of encumbered property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-4. Encumbered assets. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-5. Order in which assets appropriated; abatement. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-6. Federal income tax refunds – joint returns. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-7. Federal income tax refunds – separate returns. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-8. State income tax returns. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-9. Excess funds. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-9.1. Phase II payments. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-10. Assets of decedent’s estate for limited purposes. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-11. Debt due from personal representative not discharged by appointment. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-12. Examination of persons or corporations believed to have possession of property of decedent. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-15-13. Opening and inventory of decedent’s safe-deposit box. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 16 – Sales or Leases of Personal Property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-16-1. Sales or leases without court order. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-16-2. Sales or leases by court order. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-16-3. Sales of household furnishings. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 17 – Sales, Leases or Mortgages of Real Property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-1. Sales of real property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-2. Contents of petition for sale. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-3. Petition for partition. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-4. Heirs and devisees necessary parties. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-5. Property subject to sale; conveyance by deceased in fraud of creditors. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-6. Adverse claimant to be heard; procedure. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-7. Order granted if petition not denied; public or private sale; procedure for sale. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-8. Under power in will, sales public or private. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-9. Death of vendor under contract; representative to convey. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-10. Title in personal representative for estate; he or successor to convey. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-11. Personal representative may lease or mortgage. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-12. Sale, lease or mortgage of real property by heirs or devisees. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-17-13. Prior validating acts. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 18 – Actions and Proceedings. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-1. Survival of actions to and against personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-2. Death by wrongful act of another; recovery not assets. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-3. To sue or defend in representative capacity. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-4. Service on or appearance of one binds all. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-5. When creditors may sue on claim; execution in such action. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-6. Service by publication on executor without bond. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-7. Execution by successor in office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-18-8. Action to continue, though letters revoked. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 19 – Claims against the Estate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-1. Manner of presentation of claims. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-2. Further information or affidavit of claim may be required. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-3. Limitations on presentation of claims. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-4. Payment of claims and charges. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-5. Contingent claims. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-6. Order of payment of claims. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-7. Satisfaction of claims other than by payment. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-8. Funeral expenses of decedent. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-9. Gravestone authorized. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-10. Perpetual care of cemetery lot. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-11. Pleading statute of limitations. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-12. Claims due representative not preferred. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-13. No preference within class. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-14. Claims not due rebated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-15. Disputed claim may be referred. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-16. Disputed claim not referred barred in three months. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-17. No lien by suit against representative. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-18. When costs against representative allowed. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-19-19. Claims for equitable distribution. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 20 – Inventory. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-20-1. Inventory within three months. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-20-2. Compelling the inventory. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-20-3. Supplemental inventory. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-20-4. Employment of appraisers. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 21 – Accounting. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-21-1. Annual accounts. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-21-2. Final accounts. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-21-3. What accounts must contain. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-21-3.1. Phase II tobacco grower and quota owner payments; list of Phase II distributees. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-21-4. Clerk may compel account. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-21-5. Vouchers presumptive evidence. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 22 – Distribution. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-1. Scheme of distribution; testate and intestate estates. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-2. Shares of after-born and after-adopted children. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-3. Special proceeding against unknown heirs of decedent before distribution of estate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-4. Distribution to nonresident trustee only upon appointment of process agent. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-5. Distribution of assets in kind in satisfaction of bequests and transfers in trust. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-6. Agreements with taxing authorities to secure benefit of federal marital deduction. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-7. Distribution to parent or guardian of a minor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-8. Executor or trustee; discretion over distributions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-9. Distribution to known but unlocated devisees or heirs. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-22-10. Distribution of assets of inoperative trust. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 23 – Settlement. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-23-1. Settlement after final account filed. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-23-2. Payment into court of fund due minor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-23-3. Commissions allowed personal representatives; representatives guilty of misconduct or default. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-23-4. Counsel fees allowable to attorneys serving as representatives. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-23-5. Reopening administration. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 24 – 120-Hour Survivorship Requirement; Revised Simultaneous Death Act. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-1. Definitions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-2. Requirement of survival by 120 hours. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-3. Co-owners with right of survivorship; requirement of survival by 120 hours. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-4. Survival of an event; 120-hour period not applicable. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-5. Victim deemed to survive slayer. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-6. Exceptions to the 120-hour survival requirement. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-7. Evidence of death or status. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-24-8. Protection of payors, bona fide purchasers, and other third parties; personal liability of recipient. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 25 – Small Estates. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-1. Collection of property by affidavit when decedent dies intestate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-1.1. Collection of property by affidavit when decedent dies testate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-2. Effect of affidavit. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-3. Disbursement and distribution of property collected by affidavit. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-4. Clerk may compel compliance. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-5. Subsequently appointed personal representative or collector. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-25-6. Payment to clerk of money owed decedent. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 26 – Foreign Personal Representatives and Ancillary Administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-1. Domiciliary and ancillary probate and administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-2. Payment of debt and delivery of property to domiciliary personal representative of a nonresident decedent without ancillary administration in this State. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-3. Ancillary administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-4. Bonds. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-5. Authority of domiciliary personal representative of a nonresident decedent. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-6. Jurisdiction. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-7. Service on personal representative of a nonresident decedent. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-8. Duties of personal representative in an ancillary administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-26-9. Remission of surplus assets by ancillary personal representative to domiciliary personal representative. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 27 – Apportionment of Federal Estate Tax. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-1. Definitions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-2. Apportionment. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-3. Procedure for determining apportionment. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-4. Uncollected tax. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-5. Exemptions, deductions, and credits. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-6. No apportionment between temporary and remainder interests. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-7. Fiduciary’s rights and duties. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-8. Difference with Federal Estate Tax Law. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-27-9. Effective date. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 28 – Summary Administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-1. Summary administration where spouse is sole beneficiary. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-2. Petition. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-3. Clerk’s order. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-4. Effect of order. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-5. Effect of payment. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-6. Spouse’s assumption of liabilities. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 28A-28-7. Right to petition for appointment of personal representative; discharge of spouse’s liability. [RTF] [PDF]
- Chapter 31 Wills
- Chapter 41 Estates
- Chapter 32A Powers Of Attorney
- Chapter 33A North Carolina Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
- Chapter 116B Escheats and Abandoned Property
North Carolina Probate Resources
Article 1 – Probate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-1. Officials of State authorized to take probate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-2. Officials of the United States, foreign countries, and sister states. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-2.1. Validation of instruments proved before officers of certain ranks. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-2.2. Notary public of sister state; lack of seal or stamp or expiration date of commission. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-3: Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 620, s. 3. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-4. Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 1185, s. 10. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-5. When seal of officer necessary to probate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-6. Officials may act although land or maker’s residence elsewhere. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-7: Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 620, s. 3. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-8: Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 543, s. 1. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-8.1. Certain documents verified by attorneys validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-9. Probates before stockholders in building and loan associations. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-10. Probate before stockholders or directors in banking corporations. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-11. Subpoenas to maker and subscribing witnesses. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-12. Proof of attested instrument by subscribing witness. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-12.1. Proof of attested instrument by proof of handwriting. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-12.2. Subscribing witness incompetent when grantee or beneficiary. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-13. Proof of unattested writing. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-13.1. Certificate of officer taking proof of instrument. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-14. Register of deeds to verify the presence of proof or acknowledgement and register instruments and electronic documents; order by judge; instruments to which register of deeds is a party. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-14.1. Repeal of laws requiring private examination of married women. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-15. Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 589, s. 26, effective January 1, 1986. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16. Probate of corporate deeds, where corporation has ceased to exist. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 1A – Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.1. Short title. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.2. Definitions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.3. Validity of electronic documents. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.4. Recording of documents. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.5. Administration and standards. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.6. Uniformity of application and construction. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-16.7. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 2 – Registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-17. Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-17.1. Documents registered or ordered to be registered in certain counties to designate draftsman; exceptions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-17.2. Assignments of mortgages, deeds of trust, or other agreements pledging real property as security. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-18. Conveyances, contracts to convey, options and leases of land. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-18.1. Registration of certificate of corporate merger, consolidation, or conversion. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-18.2. Registration of Inheritance and Estate Tax Waiver. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-18.3. Execution of corporate instruments; authority and proof. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-19. Unregistered deeds prior to January, 1920, registered on affidavit. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20. Deeds of trust, mortgages, conditional sales contracts, assignments of leases and rents; effect of registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.1. Place of registration; real property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.2. Place of registration; personal property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.3. Place of registration; instruments covering both personal property and real property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.4. Place of registration; chattel real. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.5. Real property; effectiveness of after-acquired property clause. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.6. Affidavit for permanent attachment of titled manufactured home to real property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-20.7. Declaration of intent to affix manufactured home; transfer of real property with manufactured home attached. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-21. Blank or master forms of mortgages, etc.; embodiment by reference in instruments later filed. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-22. Counties may provide for photographic or photostatic registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-23. Repealed by Session Laws 1953, c. 1190, s. 3. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-24. Conditional sales or leases of railroad property. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-25. Marriage settlements. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-26. Deeds of gift. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-27. Deeds of easements. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-28. Powers of attorney. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-29. Recording of bankruptcy records. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-29.1. Recordation of environmental notices. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-30. Plats and subdivisions; mapping requirements. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-30.1. Plats and subdivisions; alternative requirements. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-30.2. Review Officer. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-31. Certified copies may be registered; used as evidence. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-32. Photographic copies of plats, etc. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-32.1. Photostatic copies of plats, etc.; alternative provisions. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-32.2. Violation of § 47-30 or § 47-32 a misdemeanor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-33. Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian may be registered. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-34. Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian admissible in evidence. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-35. Register to fill in deeds on blank forms with lines. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-36. Errors in registration corrected on petition to clerk. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-36.1. Correction of errors in recorded instruments. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 3 – Forms of Acknowledgment, Probate and Order of Registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-37: Repealed by Session Laws 2005-123, s. 3, effective October 1, 2005. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-37.1. Other forms of proof. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-38. Acknowledgment by grantor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-39. Repealed by Session Laws 1977, c. 375, s. 16, effective January 1, 1978. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-40. Husband’s acknowledgment and wife’s acknowledgment before the same officer. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-41: Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 647, s. 3. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-41.01. Corporate conveyances. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-41.02. Other forms of probate for corporate conveyances. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-41.1. Corporate seal. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-41.2. Technical defects. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-42. Attestation of bank conveyances by secretary or cashier. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-43. Form of certificate of acknowledgment of instrument executed by attorney-in-fact. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-43.1. Execution and acknowledgment of instruments by attorneys or attorneys-in-fact. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-43.2. Officer’s certificate upon proof of instrument by subscribing witness. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-43.3. Officer’s certificate upon proof of instrument by proof of signature of maker. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-43.4. Officer’s certificate upon proof of instrument by proof of signature of subscribing witness. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-44. Clerk’s certificate upon probate by justice of peace or magistrate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-45. Clerk’s certificate upon probate by nonresident official without seal. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-46: Repealed by Session Laws 2005-123, s. 4, effective October 1, 2005. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-46.1. Notice of satisfaction of deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-46.2. Certificate of satisfaction of deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-46.3. Affidavit of lost note. [RTF] [PDF]
Article 4 – Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-47. Defective order of registration; “same” for “this instrument”. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-48. Clerks’ and registers of deeds’ certificate failing to pass on all prior certificates. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-49. Defective certification or adjudication of clerk, etc., admitting to registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-50. Order of registration omitted. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-50.1. Register’s certificate omitted. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-51. Official deeds omitting seals. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-52. Defective acknowledgment on old deeds validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-53. Probates omitting official seals, etc. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-53.1. Acknowledgment omitting seal of clerk or notary public. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-54. Registration by register’s deputies or clerks. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-54.1. Registration by register’s assistants or deputies. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-55. Before officer in wrong capacity or out of jurisdiction. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-56. Before justices of peace, where clerk’s certificate or order of registration defective. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-57. Probates on proof of handwriting of maker refusing to acknowledge. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-58. Before judges of Supreme Court or superior courts or clerks before 1889. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-59. Before clerks of inferior courts. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-60. Order of registration by judge, where clerk party. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-61. Order of registration by interested clerk. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-62. Probates before interested notaries. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-63. Probates before officer of interested corporation. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-64. Probates before officers, stockholders or directors of corporations prior to January 1, 1945. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-65. Clerk’s deeds, where clerk appointed himself to sell. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-66. Certificate of wife’s “previous” examination. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-67. Probates of husband and wife in wrong order. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-68. Probates of husband and wife before different officers. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-69. Wife free trader; no examination or husband’s assent. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-70. By president and attested by treasurer under corporate seal. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-71. By president and attested by witness before January, 1900. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-71.1. Corporate seal omitted prior to January 1, 1991. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-72. Corporate name not affixed, but signed otherwise prior to January, 1973. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-73. Probated and registered on oath of subscribing witness. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-74. Certificate alleging examination of grantor instead of witness. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-75. Proof of corporate articles before officer authorized to probate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-76. Before officials of wrong state. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-77. Before notaries and clerks in other states. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-78. Acknowledgment by resident taken out-of-state. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-79. Before deputy clerks of courts of other states. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-80. Sister state probates without Governor’s authentication. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-81. Before commissioners of deeds. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-81.1. Before commissioner of oaths. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-81.2. Before army, etc., officers. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-82. Foreign probates omitting seals. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-83. Before consuls general. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-84. Before vice-consuls and vice-consuls general. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-85. Before masters in chancery. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-85.1. Further as to acknowledgments, etc., before masters in chancery. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-86. Validation of probate of deeds by clerks of courts of record of other states, where official seal is omitted. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-87. Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-88. Registration without formal order validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-89. Same subject. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-90. Validation of acknowledgments taken by notaries public holding other office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-91. Validation of certain probates of deeds before consular agents of the United States. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-92. Probates before stockholders and directors of banks. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-93. Acknowledgments taken by stockholder, officer, or director of bank. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-94. Acknowledgment and registration by officer or stockholder in building and loan or savings and loan association. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-95. Acknowledgments taken by notaries interested as trustee or holding other office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-96. Validation of instruments registered without probate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-97. Validation of corporate deed with mistake as to officer’s name. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-97.1. Validation of corporate deeds containing error in acknowledgment or probate. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-98. Registration on defective probates beyond State. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-99. Certificates of clerks without seal. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-100. Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-101. Seal of acknowledging officer omitted; deeds made presumptive evidence. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-102. Absence of notarial seal. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-103. Deeds probated and registered with notary’s seal not affixed, validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-104. Acknowledgments of notary holding another office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-105. Acknowledgment and private examination of married woman taken by officer who was grantor. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-106. Certain instruments in which clerk of superior court was a party, validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-107. Validation of probate and registration of certain instruments where name of grantor omitted from record. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108. Acknowledgments before notaries under age. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.1. Certain corporate deeds, etc., declared validly admitted to record. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.2. Acknowledgments and examinations before notaries holding some other office. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.3. Validation of acts of certain notaries public prior to November 26, 1921. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.4. Acknowledgments, etc., of instruments of married women made since February 7, 1945. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.5. Validation of certain deeds executed in other states where seal omitted. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.6. Validation of certain conveyances of foreign dissolved corporations. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.7. Validation of acknowledgments, etc., by deputy clerks of superior court. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.8. Acts of registers of deeds or deputies in recording plats and maps by certain methods validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.9. Validation of probate of instruments pursuant to § 47-12. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.10. Validation of registration of plats upon probate in accordance with § 47-30. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.11. Validation of recorded instruments where seals have been omitted. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.12. Validation of instruments acknowledged before United States commissioners. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.13. Validation of certain instruments registered prior to January 1, 1934. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.14. Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.15. Validation of registration of instruments filed before order of registration. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.16. Validation of certain deeds executed by nonresident banks. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.17. Validation of certain deeds where official capacity not designated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.18. Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.19. Validation of certain maps and plats that cannot be copied. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.20. Validation of certain recorded instruments that were not acknowledged. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.21. Sales for 1930 on dates other than first Monday in June validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.22. Tax sales for 1931-32 on day other than law provides and certificates validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.23. Tax sales for 1933-34 and certificates validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.24. Notices of sale for taxes by publication validated. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.25. Validation of sales and resales held pursuant to § 105-374. [RTF] [PDF]
- § 47-108.26. Validation of reconveyances of tax foreclosed property by county boards of commissioners. [RTF] [PDF]
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