Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-04-09
REGISTER YOUR DEEDS.
A Bill to be Entitled an Act to Repeal
Section 1915 OF the Code and Re
Quire the Registration of Deeds.


The General assembly of North Cbro-
lima do enact:
sand two hundred and forty-five of the
Code be stricken out and the following
inserted in lieu thereof: No convey
ance of land, or contract to convey,
or lease of land for more than three
years shall be valid to pass any prop
erty, as against creditors or purchasers
for valuable consideration from the
donor, bargainor or lessor, but from
| the registration thereof within the
county where the land lieth, provided.
however, that the provisions of this
act shall not apply to contracts, leases
or deeds, already executed, until the
first day of January, 1886. Provided
further, that no purchase from any
such donor, bargainor or lessor shall
avail or pass title as against any un-
registered deed executed prior to the
1st day Of December, 1885, when the
person or persons holding or claiming
under such unregistered deed, shall be
in the actual enjoyment and possess
ion of such and, either in person or by
his, her or their tenants at the time of
the execution of such second deed, or
when the person or persons claiming
under such deed actual or constructive
notice of such unregistered deed, or the
claim of the person or persons holding
or claiming Hereunder.
SEC. 2. That any person or persons
holding any unregistered deed or
claiming title Hereunder, executed
prior to the first day of January, 1885,
may have the same recorded without
proof of the execution thereof: Pro
ided, that such person or persons shall
make an affidavit before the officer
having jurisdiction to take probate OF
such deed, that the grantor, bargainor
or maker of such deed, and the wit
nesses thereto are dead, or cannot be
found, and that he, she or they cannot
make proof of their handwriting. Said
affidavit shall be written upon or at
tached to such deed, and the same, to-
gether with such deed, be entitled tc
registration in the same manner and
with the same effect as if proven i'll the
manner prescribed by law for other
deeds.
/ Sec. 8. That all deeds. contracts OIL
leases. before registration, except those
mentioned in section hereof, shall
be acknowledged by the grantor, les
sor or their signatures proven on oath
by one or more witnesses in the man
ner prescribed by law, and all deeds
so executed and registered shall be
1 valid, and pass title and estates with
out livery of seizin, attornment OF
other ceremony whatever.
4 SEC. 4. That for the probate of al
deeds, including the privy examina
ton of a fen,e coUert executing tho
same, executed prior to January 1st
1885, the clerk shall receive fifteer
cents for each name, and the register
. for recording the same, fifty cents fol
5 the first three copy sheets, and fivt
cents for EACH additional copy sheet.
SEC. 5. That this act shall be il
E force from and after the first day o
Decomb .r, 1885. and the Secretary
of State shall cause the same to b
published in at least three newspaper
In each Judicial district in the Stat
; for six weeks before said day ant
shall funish to each clerk and reg
ister in the State copy thereof to b
posted in their Office.