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NC Gen Stat § 47-85 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-85 - Before masters in chancery.

 47-85. Before masters in chancery.All probates, acknowledgments, and private examinations of deeds and conveyances of land heretofore taken before masters in equity or masters in chancery in any other state are declared to be valid, and all registrations of such deeds or conveyances upon such probates, acknowledgments and private examinations, or any of them, are hereby declared to be sufficient. All such deeds and conveyances and registration thereof, and all certified copies of such registrations, shall be received in evidence or otherwise used in the same manner and with the same force and effect as other deeds and conveyances with probates, acknowledgments, or private examinations made in accordance with provisions of statutes of this State in force at the time and as registrations thereof and certified copies of such registrations. Nothing in this section contained shall have effect to deprive anyone of any legal rights acquired, before its passage, from the grantors in such deeds or conveyances subsequently to their execution, where the deeds or conveyances by which such rights were acquired have been duly acknowledged or probated and registered. (1911, c. 10; C.S., s. 3366.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-85.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-85.1 - Further as to acknowledgments, etc., before masters in chancery.

 47-85.1. Further as to acknowledgments, etc., before masters in chancery.All probates, acknowledgments and privy examinations of deeds, mortgages and conveyances of land, which prior to January 1, 1948 have been taken before masters in equity or masters in chancery in any other state, are hereby declared to be valid, and all registrations of such deeds, mortgages or conveyances upon such probates, acknowledgments and private examinations, or any of them are hereby declared to be sufficient and valid. All such deeds and conveyances and registration thereof, and all certified copies of such registrations shall be received in evidence or otherwise used in the same manner and with the same force and effect as other deeds, mortgages and conveyances with probates, acknowledgments, or private examinations made in accordance with the provisions of statutes and laws of this State in force at the time, and as registrations thereof and certified copies of such registrations. (1953, c. 1136.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-86 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-86 - Validation of probate of deeds by clerks of courts of record of other states, where official seal is omitted.

 47-86. Validation of probate of deeds by clerks of courts of record of other states, where official seal is omitted.In all cases where, prior to the first day of January, 1891, the acknowledgment, privy examination of a married woman, or other proof of the execution of any deed, mortgage, or other instrument authorized to be registered has been taken before a clerk of a court of record in another state, and such clerk has failed or neglected to affix his official seal to his certificate of such acknowledgment, privy examination, or other proof of execution, of such deed, mortgage or other instrument, or where such court had no official seal and no official seal was affixed to such certificate by reason of that fact, and such deed, mortgage, or other instrument has been ordered to registration by the clerk of the superior court of any county in this State and has been registered, the probate of any and every such deed, mortgage, or other instrument authorized to be registered shall be and hereby is to all intents and purposes validated. (1921, c. 15, ss. 1, 2; C.S., s. 3366(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-87 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-87 - Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband.

 47-87. Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband.In all cases where, prior to the second day of March, 1895, the acknowledgment, privy examination of a married woman, or other proof of the execution of any deed, mortgage, or other instrument, authorized to be registered, executed by husband and wife, has been taken as to the husband and wife in different states and by different officers having power to take acknowledgments, any and every such acknowledgment, privy examination of a married woman, or other proof of execution, and the probate of any and every such deed, mortgage or other instrument shall be and hereby is, to all intents and purposes validated. (1921, c. 19, ss. 1, 4; C.S., s. 3366(b).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-88 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-88 - Registration without formal order validated.

 47-88. Registration without formal order validated.In all cases where the acknowledgment, privy examination of a married woman, or other proof of the execution of any deed, mortgage or other instrument, authorized to be registered, has been taken before a commissioner in another state appointed by the probate judge of any county of this State, under the provisions of section 20 of Chapter 35 of Battle's Revisal, during the time said Chapter remained in force and effect, and such commissioner has certified to such acknowledgment, privy examination or other proof, and has returned such deed, mortgage or other instrument to said probate judge, with his certificate endorsed thereon, and such deed, mortgage or other instrument, together with such certificate, has been registered, without any adjudication or order of registration by such probate judge, the probate and registration of any and every such deed shall be, and hereby are, to all intents and purposes validated. (1921, c. 19, ss. 2, 4; C.S., s. 3366(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-89 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-89 - Same subject.

 47-89. Same subject.In all cases where any deed, mortgage or other instrument has heretofore been acknowledged or probated in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 47-87 and 47-88, and such deed, mortgage or other instrument has been registered, without any order of registration by the probate judge or clerk of the superior court appearing thereon, the probate and registration of any and every such deed, mortgage or other instrument shall be, and hereby is, to all intents and purposes validated. (1921, c. 19, ss. 3, 4; C.S., s. 3366(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-90 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-90 - Validation of acknowledgments taken by notaries public holding other office.

 47-90. Validation of acknowledgments taken by notaries public holding other office.In every case where deeds or other instruments have been acknowledged before a notary public, when the notary public, at the time was also holding some other office, and the deed or other instrument has been duly probated and recorded, such acknowledgment taken by such notary public is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid. (1921, c. 21; C.S., s. 3366(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-91 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-91 - Validation of certain probates of deeds before consular agents of the United States.

 47-91. Validation of certain probates of deeds before consular agents of the United States.In all cases where the acknowledgment, privy examination of a married woman, or other proof of the execution of any deed, mortgage or other instrument authorized or required to be registered has been taken before any consular agent of the United States, during the time Chapter 35 of Battle's Revisal remained in force and effect, and such acknowledgment, privy examination, or other proof of the execution of such deed, mortgage, or other instrument is in other respects regular and in proper form, and such deed, mortgage, or other instrument has been duly ordered to registration and registered in the proper county, the acknowledgment, probate, and registration of any and every such deed, mortgage, or other instrument is hereby validated as fully and to the same effect as though such acknowledgment, privy examination, or other proof of execution had been taken before one of the officers named in subsection five of section two of said Chapter 35 of Battle's Revisal. (1921, c. 157; C.S., s. 3366(f).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-92 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-92 - Probates before stockholders and directors of banks.

 47-92. Probates before stockholders and directors of banks.No acknowledgment or proof of execution, including privy examination of married women, of any mortgage, or deed of trust executed to secure the payment of any indebtedness to any banking corporation shall be held invalid by reason of the fact that the officer taking such acknowledgment, proof, or privy examination was a stockholder or director in such banking corporation.  (1923, c. 17; C.S., s. 3366(g); 2013-204, s. 1.28.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-93 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-93 - Acknowledgments taken by stockholder, officer, or director of bank.

 47-93. Acknowledgments taken by stockholder, officer, or director of bank.No acknowledgment or proof of execution, including privy examination of married women, of any mortgage or deed of trust executed to secure the payment of any indebtedness to any banking corporation shall be held invalid by reason of the fact that the officer taking such acknowledgment, proof, or privy examination was a stockholder, officer, or director in such banking corporation.  (Ex. Sess. 1924, c. 68; 2013-204, s. 1.29.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-94 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-94 - Acknowledgment and registration by officer or stockholder in building and loan or savings and loan association.

 47-94. Acknowledgment and registration by officer or stockholder in building and loan or savings and loan association.All acknowledgments and proofs of execution, including privy examination of married women, of any mortgage or deed of trust executed to secure the payment of any indebtedness to any State or federal building and loan or savings and loan association shall not be, nor held to be, invalid by reason of the fact that the clerk of the superior court, justice of the peace, notary public, or other officer taking such acknowledgment, proof of execution or privy examination, was an officer or stockholder in such building and loan association; but such proofs and acknowledgments of all such instruments, and the registration thereof, if in all other respects valid, are hereby declared to be valid.Nor shall the registration of any such mortgage or deed of trust ordered to be registered by the clerk of the superior court, or by any deputy or assistant clerk of the superior court, be or held to be invalid by reason of the fact that the clerk of the superior court, or deputy, or assistant clerk of the superior court, ordering such mortgages or deeds of trust to be registered was an officer or stockholder in any State or federal building and loan or savings and loan association, whose indebtedness is secured in and by such mortgage or deed of trust.  (Ex. Sess. 1924, c. 108; 1929, c. 146, s. 1; 1959, c. 489; 2013-204, s. 1.30.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-95 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-95 - Acknowledgments taken by notaries interested as trustee or holding other office.

 47-95. Acknowledgments taken by notaries interested as trustee or holding other office.In every case where deeds and other instruments have been acknowledged and privy examination of wives had before notaries public, or justices of the peace, prior to October 1, 1991, when the notary public or justice of the peace at the time was interested as trustee in said instrument or at the time was also holding some other office, and the deed or other instrument has been duly probated and recorded, such acknowledgment and privy examination taken by such notary public or justice of the peace is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid.  (1923, c. 61; C.S., s. 3366(h); 1931, cc. 166, 438; 1939, c. 321; 1955, c. 696; 1957, c. 1270; 1959, c. 81; 1969, c. 639, s. 1; 1975, c. 320, s. 1; 2013-204, s. 1.31.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-96 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-96 - Validation of instruments registered without probate.

 47-96. Validation of instruments registered without probate.In every case where it shall appear from the records in the office of the register of deeds of any county in the State that any instrument of writing required or allowed by law to be registered prior to January 1, 1869, without any acknowledgment, proof, privy examination, or probate, or upon a defective acknowledgment, proof, privy examination, or probate, the record of such instrument may, notwithstanding, be read in evidence in any of the courts of this State, if otherwise competent. (1923, c. 215, s. 1; C.S., s. 3366(i).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-97 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-97 - Validation of corporate deed with mistake as to officer's name.

 47-97. Validation of corporate deed with mistake as to officer's name.In all cases where the deed of a corporation executed before April 1, 2021, is properly executed, properly recorded and there is error in the probate of the corporation's deed as to the name or names of the officers in the probate, the deed has the same force and effect as if the probate were in every way proper.  (1933, c. 412, s. 1; 2013-204, s. 1.32; 2021-91, s. 4(i).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-97.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-97.1 - Validation of corporate deeds containing error in acknowledgment or probate.

 47-97.1. Validation of corporate deeds containing error in acknowledgment or probate.In all cases where the deed of a corporation executed and filed for registration prior to April 1, 2021, is properly executed and properly recorded, and there is error in the acknowledgment or probate of the corporation's deed as to the name or names of the officer or officers named and error as to the title or titles of the officer or officers named, the deed has the same force and effect as if the probate or acknowledgment were in every way proper.  (1951, c. 825; 2013-204, s. 1.33; 2021-91, s. 4(j).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-98 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-98 - Registration on defective probates beyond State.

 47-98. Registration on defective probates beyond State.In every case where it shall appear from the records in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State that any instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, bearing date prior to the year 1835, executed by any person or persons residing in any of the United States, other than this State, or in any of the territories of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, has been proven or acknowledged, or the privy examination of any feme covert taken thereto, before any officer or person authorized by any of the laws of this State in force prior to the said year 1835 to take such proofs, privy examinations and acknowledgments, and the said instrument has been registered in the proper county without the certificate of the Governor of the state or territory in which such proofs, acknowledgments or privy examinations were taken, or of the Secretary of State of the United States, when such certificate or certificates were required, as to the official character of the person taking such acknowledgment, proof or privy examination, as aforesaid, and without an order of registration made by a court or judge in this State having jurisdiction to make such order, then and in all such cases such proofs, privy examinations, acknowledgments and registrations are hereby in all respects fully validated and confirmed and declared to be sufficient in law, and such instruments so registered may be read in evidence in any of the courts of this State. (1923, c. 215, ss. 2, 3; C.S., s. 3366(j).)
NC Gen Stat § 47-99 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-99 - Certificates of clerks without seal.

 47-99. Certificates of clerks without seal.All certificates of acknowledgment and all verifications of pleadings, affidavits, and other instruments executed by clerks of the superior court of the State prior to March 1, 1945, and which do not bear the official seal of such clerks, are hereby validated in all cases in which the instruments bearing such acknowledgment or certification are filed or recorded in any county in the State other than the county in which the clerk executing such certificates of acknowledgment or verifications resides, and such acknowledgments and verifications are hereby made and declared to be binding, valid and effective to the same extent and in the same manner as if said official seal had been affixed. (1925, c. 248; 1945, c. 798.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-100 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-100 - Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor.

 47-100. Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor.In all cases where a deed or deeds dated prior to the first day of January, 1980, purporting to convey lands, have been registered in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the lands conveyed in said deed or deeds are located, prior to said first day of January, 1980, and the acknowledgments or proof of execution of such deed or deeds has been taken as to some of the grantors by an officer who was himself one of the grantors named in such deed or deeds, such defective execution, acknowledgment and proof of execution and probate of such deed or deeds thereon and the registration thereof as above described, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be in all respects valid, and such deed or deeds shall be declared to be in all respects duly executed, probated and recorded to the same effect as if such officer taking such proof or acknowledgment of execution had not been named as a grantor therein, or in anywise interested therein. (1929, c. 48, s. 1; 1953, c. 986; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 1030, s. 51.8.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-101 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-101 - Seal of acknowledging officer omitted; deeds made presumptive evidence.

 47-101. Seal of acknowledging officer omitted; deeds made presumptive evidence.In all cases where deeds appear to have been executed for land prior to January 1, 1900, and appear to have been recorded in the offices of the registers of deeds in the proper counties in this State, and the same appear to have been acknowledged before commissioners of affidavits (or deeds) of North Carolina, residing in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the different states, or appear to have been recorded without any certificate being recorded on the record of such deed or deeds, such record or records shall be presumptive evidence of the execution of such deed or deeds by the grantor or the grantors to the grantee or grantees therein named for the lands therein described, and the record of such deed or deeds may be offered or read in evidence upon the trial or hearing of any cause in any of the courts of this State as if the same had been properly probated and recorded: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent such record or records from being attacked for fraud, and provided further that this section shall not apply to creditors or purchasers, but as to them the same shall stand as if this section had not been passed, and shall only apply to deeds executed prior to January 1, 1900. (1929, c. 14, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-102 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-102 - Absence of notarial seal.

 47-102. Absence of notarial seal.Any deed executed prior to October 1, 2005, and duly acknowledged before a North Carolina notary public, and the probate recites "witness my hand and notarial seal," or words of similar import, and no seal was affixed to the said deed, shall be ordered registered by the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the land lies, upon presentation to him: Provided, the probate is otherwise in due form.  (1935, c. 130; 1943, c. 472; 1945, c. 808, s. 3; 2013-204, s. 1.34.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-103 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-103 - Deeds probated and registered with notary's seal not affixed, validated.

 47-103. Deeds probated and registered with notary's seal not affixed, validated.Any deed conveying or affecting real estate executed prior to January 1, 1932, and ordered registered and recorded in the county in which the land lies prior to said date, from which deed and the acknowledgment and privy examination thereof the seal of the notary public taking the acknowledgment or privy examination of the grantor or grantors thereof was omitted, is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid, and the probate and registration thereof are hereby in all respects validated and confirmed to the same effect as if the seal of said notary was affixed to the acknowledgment or privy examination thereof. (1941, c. 20.)
NC Gen Stat § 47-104 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration|Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.|§ 47-104 - Acknowledgments of notary holding another office.

 47-104. Acknowledgments of notary holding another office.In every case where deeds or other instruments have been acknowledged before a notary public, when the notary public at the time was also holding some other office, and the deed or other instrument has been duly probated and recorded, such acknowledgment taken by such notary public is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid. (1935, c. 133; 1937, c. 284.)