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NC Gen Stat § 40A-69 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 4 - Just Compensation.|§ 40A-69 - Property subject to life tenancy.

 40A-69. Property subject to life tenancy.If the property taken is subject to a life tenancy, the commissioners, the jury, or the judge may include in the judgment a requirement that:(1) The award be apportioned and distributed on the basis of the respective values of the interests of the life tenant and remainderman;(2) The compensation be used to purchase comparable property to be held subject to the life tenancy;(3) The compensation be held in trust and administered subject to the terms of the instrument that created the life tenancy; or(4) Any other equitable arrangement be carried out. (1981, c. 919, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 40A-70 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 5 - Return of Condemned Property.|§ 40A-70 - Return of condemned property.

 40A-70. Return of condemned property.Whenever a public condemnor listed in G.S. 40A-3(b) or (c) acquires real property by condemnation and thereafter determines that the property is not needed for the purpose for which it was condemned, and the public condemnor still owns the property, the public condemnor may reconvey the property to the original owner upon payment to the public condemnor of the full price paid to the owner when the property was taken by eminent domain, the cost of any improvements, together with interest at the legal rate to the date when the decision was made to offer the return of the property. Unless the public condemnor acquired the entire lot, block, or tract of land belonging to the original owner, the original owner must own the remainder of the original lot, block, or tract of land from which the property was acquired to purchase the property pursuant to this section. The public condemnor shall specify a date by which the property must be reconveyed and the payment made, which may not be less than 30 days after written notification to the original owner that the public condemnor has decided to offer the return of the property. (1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 980, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 40A-80 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 6 - Condemnation of Property Encumbered by a Conservation Easement.|§ 40A-80 - Applicability of Article; definition.

 40A-80. Applicability of Article; definition.(a) Applicability. -(1) The provisions of this Article shall apply only to a condemnation action initiated by a public condemnor, which for purposes of this Article shall be any entity exercising the power of eminent domain under any authority except G.S. 40A-3(a).(2) Except with respect to G.S. 40A-84, the provisions of this Article shall not apply to those circumstances in which: (i) the terms of the conservation easement provide an express exception for uses, purposes, and rights that may be subject to condemnation in the future, or circumstances in which the condemnation action to be taken would not extinguish, restrict, or impair the property rights of the holder of the conservation easement. "Property rights" as used herein shall include the purposes for which the easement was created; and (ii) a local public condemnor or other public condemnor under G.S. 40A-3 is constructing, enlarging, or improving electric distribution systems; gas production, storage, transmission, and distribution systems; water supply and distribution systems; wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal systems of all types; storm sewer and drainage systems; or trails associated with greenways. In condemnation actions exempt pursuant to this subdivision, a condemnor shall make reasonable efforts, after completion of the project for which the condemnation was undertaken, to return the property to the condition that the property existed in prior to condemnation to the extent practicable.(b) Definition. - As used in this Article, the term "conservation easement" means a conservation or historic preservation easement that meets all of the following criteria, as each of the criteria are defined under 26 U.S.C. 170(h): (i) a qualified real property interest, (ii) held by a qualified organization, and (iii) exclusively for conservation purposes.  (2009-439, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 40A-81 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 6 - Condemnation of Property Encumbered by a Conservation Easement.|§ 40A-81 - Additional information required in petition or complaint filed.

 40A-81. Additional information required in petition or complaint filed.Any public entity that acts to exercise the power of eminent domain on property encumbered by a conservation easement shall initiate the action as required by this Chapter or Chapter 136 of the General Statutes as applicable. The complaint filed as required by those Chapters also shall include a statement that alleges that there is no prudent and feasible alternative to condemnation of the property encumbered by the conservation easement.  (2009-439, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 40A-83 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 6 - Condemnation of Property Encumbered by a Conservation Easement.|§ 40A-83 - Vesting of title and right of possession.

 40A-83. Vesting of title and right of possession.Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 40A-42 or G.S. 136-104, title and right to immediate possession of property subject to this Article shall not vest in a condemnor any earlier than any of the following:(1) The failure of the easement holder to file an answer within the 30-day time period established by G.S. 40A-82(a).(2) Determination by the court that no prudent or feasible alternative exists to condemnation of the property pursuant to G.S. 40A-82(b).(3) Filing of the complaint and deposit in actions meeting all of the requirements of G.S. 40A-82(c).  (2009-439, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 40A-84 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 6 - Condemnation of Property Encumbered by a Conservation Easement.|§ 40A-84 - Compensation for condemnation.

 40A-84. Compensation for condemnation.In any action to condemn property encumbered by a conservation easement, the court shall determine just compensation pursuant to Article 4 of this Chapter or in accordance with Chapter 136 of the General Statutes, as applicable, by first determining the value of the property taken as a whole, unencumbered by the conservation easement, as well as any other, separately owned interest in the property. The court shall allocate the just compensation award between or among any holders of the conservation easement and any owners of the property as provided by the easement agreement or, if the agreement fails to address the issue, as the judge finds equitable based upon evidence to include the opinion of a real estate valuation expert with experience in the valuation of conservation easements. Any party may demand trial by jury on the issue of total just compensation for the taking.  (2009-439, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 40A-85 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 40A - Eminent Domain|Article 6 - Condemnation of Property Encumbered by a Conservation Easement.|§ 40A-85 - Appeal.

 40A-85. Appeal.The parties shall have a right of appeal as provided in G.S. 40A-13.  (2009-439, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-1 - Fee tail converted into fee simple.

 41-1. Fee tail converted into fee simple.Every person seized of an estate in tail shall be deemed to be seized of the same in fee simple. (1784, c. 204, s. 5; R.C., c. 43, s. 1; Code, s. 1325; Rev., s. 1578; C.S., s. 1734; 1995, c. 190, s. 1; c. 525, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-2.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-2.2 - Joint ownership of securities.

 41-2.2. Joint ownership of securities.(a) In addition to other forms of ownership, securities may be owned by any parties as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, and not as tenants in common, in the manner provided in this section.(b) (1) A joint tenancy in securities as provided by this section shall exist when such securities indicate that they are owned with the right of survivorship, or otherwise clearly indicate an intention that upon the death of either party the interest of the decedent shall pass to the surviving party.(2) Such a joint tenancy may also exist when a broker or custodian holds the securities for the joint tenants and by book entry or otherwise indicates (i) that the securities are owned with the right of survivorship, or (ii) otherwise clearly indicates that upon the death of either party, the interest of the decedent shall pass to the surviving party. Money in the hands of such broker or custodian derived from the sale of, or held for the purpose of, such securities shall be treated in the same manner as such securities.(c) Upon the death of a joint tenant his interest shall pass to the surviving joint tenant. The interest of the deceased joint tenant, even though it has passed to the surviving joint tenant, remains liable for the debts of the decedent in the same manner as the personal property included in his estate, and recovery thereof shall be made from the surviving joint tenant when the decedent's estate is insufficient to satisfy such debts.(d) This section does not repeal or modify any provisions of the law relating to estate or inheritance taxes.(e) As used in this section, "securities" has the same meaning as in G.S. 41-40(9) and includes "security account" as that term is defined in G.S. 41-40(10). (1967, c. 864, s. 1; 1969, c. 1115, s. 2; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 891, s. 2; 1998-69, s. 12; 1999-337, s. 10; 2005-411, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-2.5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-2.5 - Recodified as G.S. 41-56(d) by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020.

 41-2.5: Recodified as G.S. 41-56(d) by Session Laws 2020-50, s. 1(b), effective June 30, 2020.
NC Gen Stat § 41-3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-3 - Survivorship among trustees.

 41-3. Survivorship among trustees.In all cases where only a naked trust not coupled with a beneficial interest has been created or exists, or shall be created, and the conveyance is to two or more trustees, the right to perform the trust and make estates under the same shall be exercised by any one of such trustees, in the event of the death of his cotrustee or cotrustees or the refusal or inability of the cotrustee or cotrustees to perform the trust; and in cases of trusts herein named the trustees shall hold as joint tenants, and in all respects as joint tenants held before the year 1784. (1885, c. 327, s. 1; Rev., s. 1580; C.S., s. 1736.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-4 - Limitations on failure of issue.

 41-4. Limitations on failure of issue.Every contingent limitation in any deed or will, made to depend upon the dying of any person without heir or heirs of the body, or without issue or issues of the body, or without children, or offspring, or descendant, or other relative, shall be held and interpreted a limitation to take effect when such person dies not having such heir, or issue, or child, or offspring, or descendant, or other relative (as the case may be) living at the time of his death, or born to him within 10 lunar months thereafter, unless the intention of such limitation be otherwise, and expressly and plainly declared in the face of the deed or will creating it: Provided, that the rule of construction contained in this section shall not extend to any deed or will made and executed before the fifteenth of January, 1828. (1827, c. 7; R.C., c. 43, s. 3; Code, s. 1327; Rev., s. 1581; C.S., s. 1737.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-5 - Unborn infant may take by deed or writing.

 41-5. Unborn infant may take by deed or writing.An infant unborn, but in esse, shall be deemed a person capable of taking by deed or other writing any estate whatever in the same manner as if he were born. (R.C., c. 43, s. 4; Code, s. 1328; Rev., s. 1582; C.S., s. 1738.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-6 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-6 - "Heirs" construed to be "children" in certain limitations.

 41-6. "Heirs" construed to be "children" in certain limitations.A limitation by deed, will, or other writing, to the heirs of a living person, shall be construed to be to the children of such person, unless a contrary intention appear by the deed or will. (R.C., c. 43, s. 5; Code, s. 1329; Rev., s. 1583; C.S., s. 1739.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-6.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-6.1 - Meaning of "next of kin."

 41-6.1. Meaning of "next of kin."A limitation by deed, will, or other writing, to the "next of kin" of any person shall be construed to be to those persons who would take under the law of intestate succession, unless a contrary intention appears by the instrument. (1967, c. 948.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-6.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-6.2 - Doctrine of worthier title abolished.

 41-6.2. Doctrine of worthier title abolished.(a) The law of this State does not include: (i) the common-law rule of worthier title that a grantor or testator cannot convey or devise an interest to the grantor's or testator's own heirs, or (ii) a presumption or rule of interpretation that a grantor or testator does not intend, by a grant or devise to the grantor's or testator's own heirs or next of kin, to transfer an interest to them. The meaning of a grant or devise of a legal or equitable interest to a grantor's or testator's own heirs or next of kin, however designated, shall be determined by the general rules applicable to the interpretation of grants or wills.(b) Subdivision (a)(i) of this section shall apply to all revocable trusts in existence as of February 26, 1979 and to all instruments, including revocable trusts, becoming effective after February 26, 1979, and subdivision (a)(ii) of this section shall apply to all instruments in existence as of February 26, 1979 and to all instruments becoming effective after February 26, 1979. If the application of this section to any instrument is held invalid, its application to other instruments to which it may validly be applied shall not be affected thereby.  (1979, c. 88, s. 1; 2011-284, s. 49.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-6.3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-6.3 - Rule in Shelley's case abolished.

 41-6.3. Rule in Shelley's case abolished.(a) The rule of property known as the rule in Shelley's case is abolished.(b) This section shall become effective October 1, 1987, and applies to transfers of property that take effect on or after that date. (1987, c. 706, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-6.4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-6.4 - Rule in Dumpor's Case abolished.

 41-6.4. Rule in Dumpor's Case abolished.(a) The rule of property known as the Rule in Dumpor's Case is abolished.(b) This section shall become effective October 1, 2012, and applies to transfers of property that take effect on or after that date.  (2012-163, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-7 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-7 - Possession transferred to use in certain conveyances.

 41-7. Possession transferred to use in certain conveyances.By deed of bargain and sale, or by deeds of lease and release, or by covenant to stand seized to use, or deed operating by way of covenant to stand seized to use, or otherwise, by any manner or means whatsoever it be, the possession of the bargainor, releasor, or covenanter shall be deemed to be transferred to the bargainee, releasee, or person entitled to the use, for the estate or interest which such person shall have in the use, as perfectly as if the bargainee, releasee or person entitled to the use had been enfeoffed at common law with livery of seizin of the land intended to be conveyed by such deed or covenant. (27 Hen. VIII, c. 10; R.C., c. 43, s. 6; Code, s. 1330; Rev., s. 1584; C.S., s. 1740.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-8 - Collateral warranties abolished; warranties by life tenants deemed covenants.

 41-8. Collateral warranties abolished; warranties by life tenants deemed covenants.All collateral warranties are abolished; and all warranties made by any tenant for life of lands, tenements or hereditaments, the same descending or coming to any person in reversion or remainder, shall be void; and all such warranties, as aforesaid, shall be deemed covenants only, and bind the covenanter in like manner as other obligations. (4 Anne, c. 16, s. 21; 1852, c. 16; R.C., c. 43, s. 10; Code, s. 1334; Rev., s. 1587; C.S., s. 1741.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-10 - Titles quieted.

 41-10. Titles quieted.An action may be brought by any person against another who claims an estate or interest in real property adverse to him for the purpose of determining such adverse claims; and by any man or woman against his or her wife or husband or alleged wife or husband who have not lived together as man and wife within the two years preceding, and who at the death of such plaintiff might have or claim to have an interest in his or her estate, and a decree for the plaintiff shall debar all claims of the defendant in the property of the plaintiff then owned or afterwards acquired: Provided, that no such relief shall be granted against such husband or wife or alleged wife or husband, except in case the summons in said action is personally served on such defendant.If the defendant in such action disclaim in his answer any interest or estate in the property, or suffer judgment to be taken against him without answer, the plaintiff cannot recover costs. In any case in which judgment has been or shall be docketed, whether such judgment is in favor of or against the person bringing such action, or is claimed by him, or affects real estate claimed by him, or whether such judgment is in favor of or against the person against whom such action may be brought, or is claimed by him, or affects real estate claimed by him, the lien of said judgment shall be such claim of an estate or interest in real estate as is contemplated by this section. (1893, c. 6; 1903, c. 763; Rev., s. 1589; 1907, c. 888; C.S., s. 1743.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-10.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-10.1 - Trying title to land where State claims interest.

 41-10.1. Trying title to land where State claims interest.Whenever the State of North Carolina or any agency or department thereof asserts a claim of title to land which has not been taken by condemnation and any individual, firm or corporation likewise asserts a claim of title to the said land, such individual, firm or corporation may bring an action in the superior court of the county in which the land lies against the State or such agency or department thereof for the purpose of determining such adverse claims. Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to lands which have been condemned or taken for use as roads or for public buildings. (1957, c. 514.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-11.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-11.2 - Sale of standing timber; life estate.

 41-11.2. Sale of standing timber; life estate.If real property with standing timber is subject to a life estate, the life tenant or owner of the remainder or reversionary interest may initiate a proceeding under Chapter 46A of the General Statutes to sell the timber, separate from the real property, pursuant to G.S. 46A-80.  (2020-23, s. 14.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-12 - Sales or mortgages of contingent remainders validated.

 41-12. Sales or mortgages of contingent remainders validated.In all cases where property has been conveyed by deed, or devised by will, upon contingent remainder, executory devise, or other limitations, where a judgment of a superior court has been rendered authorizing the sale or mortgaging, including execution of deeds of trust, of such property discharged of such contingent remainder, executory devise, or other limitations in actions or special proceedings where all persons in being who would have taken such property if the contingency had then happened were parties, such judgment shall be valid and binding upon the parties thereto and upon all other persons not then in being or whose estates had not been vested: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair or destroy any vested right or estate. (1905, c. 93; Rev., s. 1591; C.S., s. 1745; 1923, c. 64; 1935, c. 36.)
NC Gen Stat § 41-13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 41 - Estates|Article 1 - Survivorship Rights and Future Interests.|§ 41-13 - Freeholders in petition for special taxes defined.

 41-13. Freeholders in petition for special taxes defined.In all cases where a petition by a specific number of freeholders is required as a condition precedent to ordering an election to provide for the assessment or levy of taxes upon realty, all residents of legal age owning realty for life or longer term, irrespective of sex, shall be deemed freeholders within the meaning of such requirement. (1915, c. 22; C.S., s. 1746.)