North Carolina General Statutes — Chapter 47
190 sections. Sourced from ncleg.gov; each section links to its full text with case-law cross-references.
- § 47-1 Officials of State authorized to take probate
- § 47-2 Officials of the United States, foreign countries, and sister states
- § 47-2.1 Validation of instruments proved before officers of certain ranks
- § 47-2.2 Notary public of sister state; lack of seal or stamp or expiration date of commission
- § 47-5 When seal of officer necessary to probate
- § 47-6 Officials may act although land or maker's residence elsewhere
- § 47-8.1 Certain documents verified by attorneys validated
- § 47-9 Probates before stockholders in building and loan associations
- § 47-10 Probate before stockholders or directors in banking corporations
- § 47-11 Subpoenas to maker and subscribing witnesses
- § 47-12 Proof of attested instrument by subscribing witness
- § 47-12.1 Proof of attested instrument by proof of handwriting
- § 47-12.2 Subscribing witness incompetent when grantee or beneficiary
- § 47-13 Proof of unattested writing
- § 47-13.1 Certificate of officer taking proof of instrument
- § 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
- § 47-14.1 Repeal of laws requiring private examination of married women
- § 47-15 Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 589, s. 26, effective January 1, 1986
- § 47-16.1 Short title
- § 47-16.2 Definitions
- § 47-16.3 Validity of electronic documents
- § 47-16.4 Recording of documents
- § 47-16.5 Administration and standards
- § 47-16.6 Uniformity of application and construction
- § 47-16.7 Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § 47-17 Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc
- § 47-17.1 Documents registered or ordered to be registered in certain counties to designate draftsman; exceptions
- § 47-17.2 Assignments of mortgages, deeds of trust, or other agreements pledging real property as security
- § 47-18 Conveyances, contracts to convey, options, and leases of land
- § 47-18.1 Registration of certificate of entity name change, merger, consolidation, or conversion
- § 47-18.2 Registration of Inheritance and Estate Tax Waiver
- § 47-18.3 Execution of corporate instruments; authority and proof
- § 47-19 Unregistered deeds prior to January, 1920, registered on affidavit
- § 47-20 Deeds of trust, mortgages, conditional sales contracts, assignments of leases and rents; effect of registration
- § 47-20.1 Place of registration; real property
- § 47-20.2 Place of registration; personal property
- § 47-20.3 Place of registration; instruments covering both personal property and real property
- § 47-20.4 Place of registration; chattel real
- § 47-20.5 Real property; effectiveness of after-acquired property clause
- § 47-20.6 Affidavit for permanent attachment of titled manufactured home to real property
- § 47-20.7 Declaration of intent to affix manufactured home; transfer of real property with manufactured home attached
- § 47-21 Blank or master forms of mortgages, etc.; embodiment by reference in instruments later filed
- § 47-22 Counties may provide for photographic or photostatic registration
- § 47-24 Conditional sales or leases of railroad property
- § 47-25 Marriage settlements
- § 47-26 Deeds of gift
- § 47-27 Deeds of easements
- § 47-28 Powers of attorney
- § 47-29 Recording of bankruptcy records
- § 47-29.1 Recordation of environmental notices
- § 47-30 Plats and subdivisions; mapping requirements
- § 47-30.1 Plats and subdivisions; alternative requirements
- § 47-30.2 Review Officer
- § 47-31 Certified copies may be registered; used as evidence
- § 47-32 Photographic copies of plats, etc
- § 47-32.1 Photostatic copies of plats, etc.; alternative provisions
- § 47-32.2 Violation of § 47-30 or § 47-32 a misdemeanor
- § 47-33 Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian may be registered
- § 47-34 Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian admissible in evidence
- § 47-35 Register to fill in deeds on blank forms with lines
- § 47-36.1 Notice of errors in recorded instruments of title
- § 47-36.2 Cure of obvious description errors in recorded instruments
- § 47-37.1 Other forms of proof
- § 47-38 Acknowledgment by grantor
- § 47-40 Husband's acknowledgment and wife's acknowledgment before the same officer
- § 47-41.01 Corporate conveyances
- § 47-41.02 Other forms of probate for corporate conveyances
- § 47-41.1 Corporate seal
- § 47-41.2 Technical defects
- § 47-42 Attestation of bank conveyances by secretary or cashier
- § 47-43 Form of certificate of acknowledgment of instrument executed by agent
- § 47-43.1 Execution and acknowledgment of instruments by attorneys or attorneys-in-fact
- § 47-43.2 Officer's certificate upon proof of instrument by subscribing witness
- § 47-43.3 Officer's certificate upon proof of instrument by proof of signature of maker
- § 47-43.4 Officer's certificate upon proof of instrument by proof of signature of subscribing witness
- § 47-44 Clerk's certificate upon probate by justice of peace or magistrate
- § 47-46.1 Notice of satisfaction of deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument
- § 47-46.2 Certificate of satisfaction of deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument
- § 47-46.3 Affidavit of lost note
- § 47-47 Defective order of registration; "same" for "this instrument"
- § 47-48 Clerks' and registers of deeds' certificate failing to pass on all prior certificates
- § 47-49 Defective certification or adjudication of clerk, etc., admitting to registration
- § 47-50 Order of registration omitted
- § 47-50.1 Register's certificate omitted
- § 47-51 Official deeds omitting seals
- § 47-52 Defective acknowledgment on old deeds validated
- § 47-53 Probates omitting official seals, etc
- § 47-53.1 Acknowledgment omitting seal of clerk or notary public
- § 47-54 Registration by register's deputies or clerks
- § 47-54.1 Registration by register's assistants or deputies
- § 47-55 Before officer in wrong capacity or out of jurisdiction
- § 47-56 Before justices of peace, where clerk's certificate or order of registration defective
- § 47-57 Probates on proof of handwriting of maker refusing to acknowledge
- § 47-58 Before judges of Supreme Court or superior courts or clerks before 1889
- § 47-59 Before clerks of inferior courts
- § 47-60 Order of registration by judge, where clerk party
- § 47-61 Order of registration by interested clerk
- § 47-62 Probates before interested notaries
- § 47-63 Probates before officer of interested corporation
- § 47-64 Probates before officers, stockholders or directors of corporations
- § 47-65 Clerk's deeds, where clerk appointed himself to sell
- § 47-66 Certificate of wife's "previous" examination
- § 47-67 Probates of husband and wife in wrong order
- § 47-68 Probates of husband and wife before different officers
- § 47-69 Wife free trader; no examination or husband's assent
- § 47-70 By president and attested by treasurer under corporate seal
- § 47-71 By president and attested by witness before January, 1900
- § 47-71.1 Corporate seal omitted prior to January 1, 2000
- § 47-72 Corporate name not affixed, but signed otherwise prior to April 1, 2021
- § 47-73 Probated and registered on oath of subscribing witness
- § 47-74 Certificate alleging examination of grantor instead of witness
- § 47-75 Proof of corporate articles before officer authorized to probate
- § 47-76 Before officials of wrong state
- § 47-77 Before notaries and clerks in other states
- § 47-78 Acknowledgment by resident taken out-of-state
- § 47-79 Before deputy clerks of courts of other states
- § 47-80 Sister state probates without Governor's authentication
- § 47-81 Before commissioners of deeds
- § 47-81.1 Before commissioner of oaths
- § 47-81.2 Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members
- § 47-82 Foreign probates omitting seals
- § 47-83 Before consuls general
- § 47-84 Before vice-consuls and vice-consuls general
- § 47-85 Before masters in chancery
- § 47-85.1 Further as to acknowledgments, etc., before masters in chancery
- § 47-86 Validation of probate of deeds by clerks of courts of record of other states, where official seal is omitted
- § 47-87 Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband
- § 47-88 Registration without formal order validated
- § 47-89 Same subject
- § 47-90 Validation of acknowledgments taken by notaries public holding other office
- § 47-91 Validation of certain probates of deeds before consular agents of the United States
- § 47-92 Probates before stockholders and directors of banks
- § 47-93 Acknowledgments taken by stockholder, officer, or director of bank
- § 47-94 Acknowledgment and registration by officer or stockholder in building and loan or savings and loan association
- § 47-95 Acknowledgments taken by notaries interested as trustee or holding other office
- § 47-96 Validation of instruments registered without probate
- § 47-97 Validation of corporate deed with mistake as to officer's name
- § 47-97.1 Validation of corporate deeds containing error in acknowledgment or probate
- § 47-98 Registration on defective probates beyond State
- § 47-99 Certificates of clerks without seal
- § 47-100 Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor
- § 47-101 Seal of acknowledging officer omitted; deeds made presumptive evidence
- § 47-102 Absence of notarial seal
- § 47-103 Deeds probated and registered with notary's seal not affixed, validated
- § 47-104 Acknowledgments of notary holding another office
- § 47-105 Acknowledgment and private examination of married woman taken by officer who was grantor
- § 47-106 Certain instruments in which clerk of superior court was a party, validated
- § 47-107 Validation of probate and registration of certain instruments where name of grantor omitted from record
- § 47-108 Acknowledgments before notaries under age
- § 47-108.1 Certain corporate deeds, etc., declared validly admitted to record
- § 47-108.2 Acknowledgments and examinations before notaries holding some other office
- § 47-108.3 Validation of acts of certain notaries public prior to November 26, 1921
- § 47-108.4 Acknowledgments, etc., of instruments of married women made since February 7, 1945
- § 47-108.5 Validation of certain deeds executed in other states where seal omitted
- § 47-108.6 Validation of certain conveyances of foreign dissolved corporations
- § 47-108.7 Validation of acknowledgments, etc., by deputy clerks of superior court
- § 47-108.8 Acts of registers of deeds or deputies in recording plats and maps by certain methods validated
- § 47-108.9 Validation of probate of instruments pursuant to § 47-12
- § 47-108.10 Validation of registration of plats upon probate in accordance with § 47-30
- § 47-108.11 Validation of recorded instruments where seals have been omitted
- § 47-108.12 Validation of instruments acknowledged before United States commissioners
- § 47-108.13 Validation of certain instruments registered prior to January 1, 1934
- § 47-108.14 Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration
- § 47-108.15 Validation of registration of instruments filed before order of registration
- § 47-108.16 Validation of certain deeds executed by nonresident banks
- § 47-108.17 Validation of certain deeds where official capacity not designated
- § 47-108.18 Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat validated
- § 47-108.18A Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial acknowledgment
- § 47-108.18B Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat
- § 47-108.19 Validation of certain maps and plats that cannot be copied
- § 47-108.20 Validation of certain recorded instruments that were not acknowledged
- § 47-108.21 Sales for 1930 on dates other than first Monday in June validated
- § 47-108.22 Tax sales for 1931-32 on day other than law provides and certificates validated
- § 47-108.23 Tax sales for 1933-34 and certificates validated
- § 47-108.24 Notices of sale for taxes by publication validated
- § 47-108.25 Validation of sales and resales held pursuant to § 105-374
- § 47-108.27 Title to real property affected by boundary certification; liens
- § 47-108.28 Seven-year curative statute
- § 47-109 Book for record of discharges in office of register of deeds; specifications
- § 47-110 Registration of official discharge or certificate of lost discharge
- § 47-111 Inquiry by register of deeds; oath of applicant
- § 47-112 Forgery or alteration of discharge or certificate; punishment
- § 47-113 Certified copy of registration
- § 47-113.2 Restricting access to military discharge documents
- § 47-115 Execution in name of either principal or attorney-in-fact; indexing in names of both
- § 47-116 Transferred to G.S. 47-14.1 by Session Laws 1951, c. 893
- § 47-117 Forms do not preclude use of others; adaptation of forms
- § 47-119 Memorandum for option to purchase or convey, right of first refusal, or right of first offer for real estate
- § 47-119.1 Memorandum for contract to purchase real estate
- § 47-120 Memorandum as notice