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NC Gen Stat § 47-64 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-64 - Probates before officers, stockholders or directors of corporations.

 47-64. Probates before officers, stockholders or directors of corporations.No acknowledgment or proof of execution, including privy examination of married women, of any deed, mortgage or deed of trust to which instrument a corporation is a party shall be held invalid by reason of the fact that the officer taking such acknowledgment, proof or privy examination was an officer, stockholder, or director in said corporation; but such proofs and acknowledgments and the registration thereof, if in all other respects valid, are declared to be valid. Nor shall the registration of any such instrument ordered to be registered be held invalid by reason of the fact that the clerk or deputy clerk ordering the registration was an officer, stockholder or director in any corporation which is a party to any such instrument.  (Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 41; C.S., s. 3346; 1929, c. 24, s. 1; 1943, c. 135; 1945, c. 860; 2013-204, s. 1.24.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-65 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-65 - Clerk's deeds, where clerk appointed himself to sell.

 47-65. Clerk's deeds, where clerk appointed himself to sell.All deeds made by any clerk of the superior court of any county or his deputy, prior to the first day of January, 1905, in any proceeding before him in which he has appointed himself or his deputy to make the sale of real property or other property are hereby validated. (1911, c. 146, s. 1; C.S., s. 3347.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-66 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-66 - Certificate of wife's "previous" examination.

 47-66. Certificate of wife's "previous" examination.All probates of deeds, letters of attorney or other instruments requiring registration to which married women were parties, had and taken prior to the fourteenth day of February, 1893, in which probate it appears that such married women were "previously examined" instead of "privately examined," are hereby validated and confirmed. (1893, c. 130; Rev., s. 1016; C.S., s. 3348.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-67 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-67 - Probates of husband and wife in wrong order.

 47-67. Probates of husband and wife in wrong order.All probates prior to March 6, 1893, of instruments executed by a husband and wife in which the probate as to the husband has been taken before or subsequent to the privy examination of his wife are validated. (1893, c. 293; Rev., s. 1017; C.S., s. 3349.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-68 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-68 - Probates of husband and wife before different officers.

 47-68. Probates of husband and wife before different officers.Where, prior to the second day of March, 1895, the probate of a deed or other instrument, executed by husband and wife, has been taken as to the husband and the wife by different officers having the power to take probates of deeds, whether both officers reside in this State or one in this State and the other in another state, or foreign country, the said probate, in the cases mentioned, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, and all deeds and other instruments required to be registered, and which have been ordered to registration by the proper officer in this State, and upon such probate or probates, and have been registered, shall be taken and considered as duly registered, and the word "probate," as used in this section, shall include privy examination of the wife. (1895, c. 120; Rev., s. 1018; 1907, c. 34, s. 1; C.S., s. 3350.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-69 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-69 - Wife free trader; no examination or husband's assent.

 47-69. Wife free trader; no examination or husband's assent.In all cases prior to the twenty-fourth day of September, 1913, where a married woman who was at the time a free trader by her husband's consent has executed and delivered a deed conveying her land, without her privy examination having been taken, and without the written assent of her husband other than his written assent contained in the instrument making her a free trader, such deed shall be valid and effectual to convey her land as if she had been, at the time of the execution and delivery of such deed, a feme sole. This section does not validate such deed where it would affect the title to land or property of purchasers or their grantees or assignees from such married woman and free trader subsequent to the execution of such deed. (Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 54, s. 1; C.S., s. 3351.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-70 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-70 - By president and attested by treasurer under corporate seal.

 47-70. By president and attested by treasurer under corporate seal.All deeds and conveyances for lands in this State, made by any corporation of this State, which have heretofore been proved or acknowledged before any notary public in any other state, or before any commissioner of deeds and affidavits for the State of North Carolina in any other state, and sealed with the common seal of the corporation and attested by the treasurer, are hereby ratified and declared to be good and valid deeds for all purposes. Where such deeds have been executed for the corporation by its president and attested, sealed and acknowledged or probated as aforesaid, and the acknowledgment or probate has been duly adjudged sufficient by any deputy clerk and ordered registered, the acknowledgment, probate and registration are ratified, and said deed is declared valid. Such deeds, or certified copies thereof, may be used as evidence of title to the lands therein conveyed in the trial of any suits in any of the courts of this State where the title of said lands shall come in controversy. (1905, c. 307; Rev., s. 1028; C.S., s. 3352.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-71 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-71 - By president and attested by witness before January, 1900.

 47-71. By president and attested by witness before January, 1900.Any deed or conveyance for land in this State, made prior to January 1, 1900, by the president of any corporation duly chartered under the laws of this State, and attested by a witness, is hereby declared to be a good and valid deed by such corporation for all purposes, and shall be admitted to probate and registration and shall pass title to the property therein conveyed to the grantee as fully as if said deed were executed according to provisions and forms of law in force in this State at the date of the execution of said deed. (1909, c. 859, s. 1; C.S., s. 3353.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-71.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-71.1 - Corporate seal omitted prior to January 1, 2000.

 47-71.1. Corporate seal omitted prior to January 1, 2000.Any corporate deed, or conveyance of land in this State, made prior to January 1, 2000, which is defective only because the corporate seal is omitted therefrom is hereby declared to be a good and valid conveyance by such corporation for all purposes and shall be sufficient to pass title to the property therein conveyed as fully as if the said conveyance were executed according to the provisions and forms of law in force in this State at the date of the execution of such conveyance.  (1957, c. 500, s. 1; 1963, c. 1015; 1969, c. 815; 1971, c. 61; 1973, c. 479; 1977, c. 538; 1981, c. 191, s. 1; 1983, c. 398, s. 5; 1985, c. 70, s. 5; 1987, c. 277, s. 5; 1989, c. 390, s. 5; 1991, c. 489, s. 5; 2013-204, s. 1.25.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-72 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-72 - Corporate name not affixed, but signed otherwise prior to April 1, 2021.

 47-72. Corporate name not affixed, but signed otherwise prior to April 1, 2021.In all cases prior to April 1, 2021, where any deed conveying lands purported to be executed by a corporation, but the corporate name was in fact not affixed to the deed, but the deed was signed by the president and secretary of the corporation, or by the president and two members of the governing body of the corporation, and the deed has been registered in the county where the land conveyed by the deed is located, the defective execution is in all respects valid, and the deed is deemed in all respects the deed of the corporation.  (1919, c. 53, s. 1; C.S., s. 3354; 1927, c. 126; 1963, c. 1094; 1973, c. 118, s. 1; 2013-204, s. 1.26; 2021-91, s. 4(h).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-73 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-73 - Probated and registered on oath of subscribing witness.

 47-73. Probated and registered on oath of subscribing witness.In all cases prior to the first day of January, 1919, where any deed conveying lands was executed by a corporation, and said deed was probated and ordered registered upon the oath and examination of a subscribing witness, by the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the land conveyed by said deed is located, and said deed has been duly registered by the register of deeds of said county, such probate and order of registration shall be, and the same is hereby, declared to be in all respects valid. (1919, c. 53, s. 2; C.S., s. 3355.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-74 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-74 - Certificate alleging examination of grantor instead of witness.

 47-74. Certificate alleging examination of grantor instead of witness.Wherever any deed of conveyance registered prior to January 1, 1886, purports to have been attested by two witnesses and in the certificate of probate and acknowledgment it is stated that the execution of such deed was proven by the oath and examination of one of the grantors in said deed instead of either of the witnesses named, all such probates and certificates are hereby validated and confirmed, and any such deed shall be taken and considered as duly acknowledged and probated. (1925, c. 84.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-75 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-75 - Proof of corporate articles before officer authorized to probate.

 47-75. Proof of corporate articles before officer authorized to probate.All proofs of articles of agreement for the creation of corporations which were, prior to the eighteenth day of February, 1901, made before any officer who was at that time authorized by the law to take proofs and acknowledgments of deeds and mortgages, are ratified. (1901, c. 170; Rev., s. 1027; C.S., s. 3356.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-76 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-76 - Before officials of wrong state.

 47-76. Before officials of wrong state.In all cases where the acknowledgment, examination and probate of any deed, mortgage, power of attorney or other instrument required or authorized to be registered has been taken before any judge, clerk of a court of record, notary public having a notarial seal, mayor of a city having a seal, or justice of the peace of a state other than the state in which the grantor, maker or subscribing witness resided at the time of the execution, acknowledgment, examination or probate thereof, and such acknowledgment, examination or probate is in other respects according to law, and such instrument has been duly ordered to registration and has been registered, then such acknowledgment, examination, probate and registration are hereby in all respects made valid and binding. This section applies to probates and acknowledgments of deputy clerks of other states when such probate and acknowledgment has been attested by the official seal of said office and adjudged sufficient and in due form of law by the clerk of the court in the state where the instrument is required to be registered. (1905, c. 505; Rev., s. 1013; C.S., s. 3357.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-77 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-77 - Before notaries and clerks in other states.

 47-77. Before notaries and clerks in other states.All deeds and conveyances made for lands in this State which have, previous to February 15, 1883, been proved before a notary public or clerk of a court of record, or before a court of record, not including mayor's court, of any other state, where such proof has been duly certified by such notary or clerk under his official seal, or the seal of the court, or in accordance with the act of Congress regulating the certifying of records of the courts of one state to another state, or under the seal of such courts, and such deed or conveyance, with the certificate, has been registered in the office of register of deeds in the book of records thereof for the county in which such lands were situate at the time of such registration, are declared to be validly registered, and the proof and registration is adjudged valid. All deeds and conveyances so proved, certified and registered, or certified copies of the same, may be used as evidence of title for the lands on the trial of any suit in any courts where title to the lands come into controversy. (1883, c. 129, ss. 1, 2; Code, ss. 1262, 1263; 1885, c. 11; Rev., ss. 1022, 1023; 1915, c. 213; C.S., s. 3358.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-78 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-78 - Acknowledgment by resident taken out-of-state.

 47-78. Acknowledgment by resident taken out-of-state.When prior to the ninth day of March, 1895, a deed or mortgage executed by a resident of this State has been proved or acknowledged by the maker thereof before a notary public of any other state of the United States, and has been ordered to be registered by the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the land conveyed is situated, and said deed or mortgage has been registered, such registration is valid. (1895, c. 181; Rev., s. 1019; C.S., s. 3359.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-79 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-79 - Before deputy clerks of courts of other states.

 47-79. Before deputy clerks of courts of other states.Where any deed or conveyance of lands in this State, executed prior to January 1, 1923, has been acknowledged by the grantor or the privy examination of any married woman has been taken before the deputy clerk of a court of record of any other state, and the certificate of acknowledgment and privy examination is otherwise sufficient under the laws of this State, except that it appears to have been signed in the name of the clerk of said court, by the deputy clerk, and the seal of the court has been affixed thereto, and such certificate has been duly approved by the clerk of the superior court of this State in the county where the lands conveyed are situated and the instrument ordered to be recorded, such certificate and probate and the registration made thereon are validated, and the conveyance, if otherwise sufficient, is declared valid. (1913, c. 57, ss. 1, 2; C.S., s. 3360; 1951, c. 1134, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-80 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-80 - Sister state probates without Governor's authentication.

 47-80. Sister state probates without Governor's authentication.In all cases where any deed concerning lands or any power of attorney for the conveyance of the same, or any other instrument required or allowed to be registered, has been, prior to the twenty-ninth day of January, 1901, acknowledged by the grantor therein, or proved and the private examination of any married woman, who was a party thereto, taken according to law, before any judge of a supreme, superior or circuit court of any other state or territory of the United States where the parties to such instrument resided, and the certificate of such judge as to such acknowledgment, probate or private examination, and also the certificate of the secretary of state of said state or territory instead of the Governor thereof (as required by the laws of this State then in force) that the judge, before whom the acknowledgment or probate and private examination were taken, was at the time of taking the same a judge as aforesaid, are attached to said deed, or other instrument, and the said deed or other instrument, having said certificates attached, has been exhibited before the former judge of probate, or the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the property is situated, and such acknowledgment, or probate and private examination have been adjudged by him to be sufficient and said deed or other instrument ordered to be registered and has been registered accordingly, such probate and registration shall be valid. Nothing herein contained affects the rights of third parties who are purchasers for value, without notice, from the grantor in such deed or other instrument. (1901, c. 39; Rev., s. 1014; C.S., s. 3361.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-81 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-81 - Before commissioners of deeds.

 47-81. Before commissioners of deeds.Any deed or other instrument permitted by law to be registered, and which has prior to the third day of March, 1913, been proved or acknowledged before a commissioner of deeds, is validated; and its registration is authorized and validated. (1913, c. 39, s. 2; C.S., s. 3362.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-81.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-81.1 - Before commissioner of oaths.

 47-81.1. Before commissioner of oaths.All deeds, mortgages or other instruments required to be registered, which prior to March 5, 1943, have been probated by a commissioner of oaths and ordered registered, are hereby validated and confirmed as properly probated and registered instruments. (1943, c. 471, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-81.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-81.2 - Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.

 47-81.2. Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.In all cases where instruments and writings have been proved or acknowledged before any commissioned officer of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard or any officer of the United States Merchant Marine having the rank of lieutenant, senior grade, or higher, such proofs or acknowledgments, where valid in other respects, are hereby ratified, confirmed and declared valid. All proofs or acknowledgments made by any military personnel authorized by the Congress of the United States are hereby ratified, confirmed, and declared valid and shall not require the affixation of a seal where valid in other respects.  (1943, c. 159, s. 2; 2011-183, s. 32; 2013-204, s. 1.27.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-82 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-82 - Foreign probates omitting seals.

 47-82. Foreign probates omitting seals.In all cases where the acknowledgment, privy examination or other proof of the execution of any instrument authorized or required to be registered has been taken by or before any ambassador, minister, consul, vice-consul, vice-consul general or commercial agent of the United States in any country beyond the limits of the United States, and such instrument has heretofore been recorded in any county in this State, but the official before whom it was taken has omitted to attach his seal of office, or it does not appear of record that such seal was attached to the instrument, or such official has certified the same as under his "official seal" or seal of his office, or words of similar import, and no such seal appears of record, then all such acknowledgments, privy examinations or other proof of such instruments, and the registration thereof, are hereby made in all respects valid, and such instruments, after the ratification hereof, shall be competent to be read in evidence. (1913, c. 69, s. 1; C.S., s. 3363.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-83 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-83 - Before consuls general.

 47-83. Before consuls general.Any deed or other instrument permitted by law to be registered, and which has prior to the thirteenth day of October, 1913, been proved or acknowledged before a "consul general," is validated; and its registration is authorized and validated. (Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 72, s. 2; C.S., s. 3364.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-84 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-84 - Before vice-consuls and vice-consuls general.

 47-84. Before vice-consuls and vice-consuls general.The order for registration by the clerk of the superior court and the registration thereof of all deeds of conveyance and other instruments in any county of this State prior to January 1, 1905, upon the certificate of any vice-consul or vice-consul general of the United States residing in a foreign country, certifying in due form under his name and the official seal of the United States consul or United States consul general of the same place and country where such vice-consul or vice-consul general resided and acted, that he has taken the proof or acknowledgments of the parties to such instruments, together with the privy examinations of married women parties thereto, are hereby, together with such proof and acknowledgments, privy examinations and certificates, validated. (1905, c. 451, s. 2; Rev., s. 1024; C.S., s. 3365.)