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NC Gen Stat § 1-81.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7 - Venue.|§ 1-81.1 - Venue in apportionment or redistricting cases; certain injunctive relief actions.

 1-81.1. Venue in apportionment or redistricting cases; certain injunctive relief actions.(a) Venue lies exclusively with the Wake County Superior Court in any action concerning any act of the General Assembly apportioning or redistricting State legislative or congressional districts.(a1) Venue lies exclusively with the Wake County Superior Court with regard to any claim seeking an order or judgment of a court, either final or interlocutory, to restrain the enforcement, operation, or execution of an act of the General Assembly, in whole or in part, based upon an allegation that the act of the General Assembly is facially invalid on the basis that the act violates the North Carolina Constitution or federal law. Pursuant to G.S. 1-267.1(a1) and G.S. 1-1A, Rule 42(b)(4), claims described in this subsection that are filed or raised in courts other than Wake County Superior Court or that are filed in Wake County Superior Court shall be transferred to a three-judge panel of the Wake County Superior Court if, after all other questions of law in the action have been resolved, a determination as to the facial validity of an act of the General Assembly must be made in order to completely resolve any issues in the case.(b) Any action brought concerning an act of the General Assembly apportioning or redistricting the State legislative or congressional districts shall be filed in the Superior Court of Wake County.  (2003-434, 1st Ex. Sess., s. 11(a); 2014-100, s. 18B.16(b).)
NC Gen Stat § 1-82 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7 - Venue.|§ 1-82 - Venue in all other cases.

 1-82. Venue in all other cases.In all other cases the action must be tried in the county in which the plaintiffs or the defendants, or any of them, reside at its commencement, or if none of the defendants reside in the State, then in the county in which the plaintiffs, or any of them, reside; and if none of the parties reside in the State, then the action may be tried in any county which the plaintiff designates in the plaintiff's summons and complaint, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial, in the cases provided by statute; provided that any person who has resided on or been stationed in a United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Air Force installation or reservation within this State for a period of one (1) year or more next preceding the institution of an action shall be deemed a resident of the county within which such installation or reservation, or part thereof, is situated and of any county adjacent to such county where such person stationed at such installation or reservation lives in such adjacent county, for the purposes of this section. The term person shall include military personnel and the spouses and dependents of such personnel.  (C.C.P., s. 68; 1868-9, cc. 59, 277; Code, s. 192; 1905, c. 367; Rev., s. 424; C.S., s. 469; 1957, c. 1082; 2011-183, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-83 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7 - Venue.|§ 1-83 - Change of venue.

 1-83. Change of venue.If the county designated for that purpose in the summons and complaint is not the proper one, the action may, however, be tried therein, unless the defendant, before the time of answering expires, demands in writing that the trial be conducted in the proper county, and the place of trial is thereupon changed by consent of parties, or by order of the court.The court may change the place of trial in the following cases:(1) When the county designated for that purpose is not the proper one.(2) When the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would be promoted by the change.(3) When the judge has, at any time, been interested as party or counsel.(4) When motion is made by the plaintiff and the action is for divorce and the defendant has not been personally served with summons. (R.C., c. 31, ss. 115, 118; C.C.P., s. 69; 1870-1, c. 20; Code, s. 195; Rev., s. 425; C.S., s. 470; 1945, c. 141.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-84 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7 - Venue.|§ 1-84 - Removal for fair trial.

 1-84. Removal for fair trial.In all civil actions in the superior and district courts, when it is suggested on oath or affirmation on behalf of the plaintiff or defendant, that there are probable grounds to believe that a fair and impartial trial cannot be obtained in the county in which the action is pending, the judge may order a copy of the record of the action removed for trial to any adjacent county, if he is of the opinion that a fair trial cannot be had in said county, after hearing all the testimony offered on either side by oral evidence or affidavits. (1806, c. 693, s. 12, P.R.; 1879, s. 45; Code, s. 196; 1899, cc. 104, 508; Rev., s. 426; 1917, c. 44; C.S., s. 471; 1957, c. 601; 1969, c. 44, s. 1; 1971, c. 268, s. 2; 1977, c. 12.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-85 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7 - Venue.|§ 1-85 - Affidavits on hearing for removal; when removal ordered.

 1-85. Affidavits on hearing for removal; when removal ordered.No action, civil or criminal, shall be removed, unless the affidavit sets forth particularly and in detail the ground of the application. It is competent for the other side to controvert the allegations of fact in the application, and to offer counter affidavits to that end. The judge shall order the removal of the action, if he is satisfied after thorough examination of the evidence as aforesaid that the ends of justice demand it. (1879, c. 45; Code, s. 197; 1899, c. 104, s. 2; Rev., s. 427; C.S., s. 472.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7 - Venue.|§ 1-87 - Transcript of removal; subsequent proceedings; depositions.

 1-87. Transcript of removal; subsequent proceedings; depositions.(a) When a cause is directed to be removed, the clerk shall transmit to the court to which it is removed a transcript of the record of the case, with the prosecution bond, bail bond, and the depositions, and all other written evidences filed therein; and all other proceedings shall be had in the county to which the place of trial is changed, unless otherwise provided by the consent of the parties in writing duly filed, or by order of court.(b) After a cause has been directed to be removed, and prior to the time that the transcript is deposited with the court to which the cause is removed, depositions may be taken in the cause, and subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and commissions to take depositions may issue from either of the said courts, under the same rules as if the cause had been originally commenced in the court from which the subpoenas or commissions issued. (1806, c. 694, s. 12, P.R.; 1810, c. 787, P.R.; R.C., c. 31, s. 118; C.C.P., s. 69; Code, ss. 195, 198; Rev., s. 428; C.S., c. 474; 1967, c. 954, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.12 - Definitions.

 1-87.12. Definitions.The following definitions apply in this Article:(1) Foreign law. - A law, rule, resolution, legal code, legal system, or any component of a legal system established and used or applied in a foreign venue or forum.(2) Foreign venue or forum. - A venue or forum operating under the authority of a government other than any of the following:a. The United States.b. A state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States.c. Any other government with regard to which the decision in this State as to whether to recognize a judgment of that government's courts is initially subject to determination under the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution.(3) Fundamental constitutional right. - A fundamental right of a natural person guaranteed by the United States Constitution or the North Carolina Constitution.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.13 - Public policy.

 1-87.13. Public policy.In recognition that the United States Constitution and the Constitution of North Carolina constitute the supreme law of this State, the General Assembly hereby declares it to be the public policy of this State to protect its citizens from the application of foreign law that would result in the violation of a fundamental constitutional right of a natural person. The public policies expressed in this section shall apply only to actual or foreseeable violations of a fundamental constitutional right resulting from the application of the foreign law.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.14 - Nonapplication of foreign law that would violate fundamental constitutional rights.

 1-87.14. Nonapplication of foreign law that would violate fundamental constitutional rights.A court, administrative agency, arbitrator, mediator, or other entity or person acting under the authority of State law shall not apply a foreign law in any legal proceeding involving, or recognize a foreign judgment involving, a claim for absolute divorce, divorce from bed and board, child custody, child support, alimony, or equitable distribution if doing so would violate a fundamental constitutional right of one or more natural persons who are parties to the proceeding.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.15 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.15 - Interpretation of contracts providing for choice of foreign law.

 1-87.15. Interpretation of contracts providing for choice of foreign law.(a) In the interpretation or enforcement by a court, administrative agency, arbitrator, mediator, or other entity or person acting under the authority of State law of any contract or other agreement that provides for the choice of a foreign law to govern its interpretation or the resolution of any claim or dispute, the court or administrative agency shall preserve the fundamental constitutional rights of natural persons who are parties to the contract or other agreement.(b) If enforcement of any provision in a contract or other agreement for the choice of foreign law would result in a violation of a fundamental constitutional right of one or more of the natural persons who are parties to the contract or other agreement, the agreement or contract shall be modified or amended to the extent necessary to preserve the fundamental constitutional rights of the natural persons.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.16 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.16 - Interpretation of contracts providing for choice of foreign venue or forum.

 1-87.16. Interpretation of contracts providing for choice of foreign venue or forum.If the enforcement of any provision in a contract or other agreement providing for a choice of a foreign venue or forum would result in a violation of a fundamental constitutional right of one or more of the natural persons who are parties to the contract or other agreement, that provision shall be modified or amended to the extent necessary to preserve the fundamental constitutional rights of the natural persons.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.17 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.17 - Motions to transfer proceedings to a foreign venue or forum.

 1-87.17. Motions to transfer proceedings to a foreign venue or forum.If a natural person subject to personal jurisdiction in this State seeks to maintain a litigation proceeding, arbitration proceeding, or other similarly binding proceeding in this State, and if a court of this State finds that granting a motion by another party to the proceeding to transfer the proceeding to a foreign venue or forum would likely lead to the violation of a fundamental constitutional right of the natural person who is the nonmovant in the foreign forum with respect to the matter in dispute, the motion shall be denied.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.18 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.18 - Contracts not capable of modification to preserve fundamental constitutional rights void.

 1-87.18. Contracts not capable of modification to preserve fundamental constitutional rights void.Any provision in a contract or other agreement incapable of being modified or amended pursuant to this Article in order to preserve the fundamental constitutional rights of the natural persons who are parties to the contract or agreement shall be null and void.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.19 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.19 - Strict construction of waivers of constitutional rights.

 1-87.19. Strict construction of waivers of constitutional rights.Nothing in this Article shall be interpreted to limit the right of natural persons voluntarily to restrict or limit their own constitutional rights by contract or specific waiver consistent with constitutional principles; however, any ambiguity in the language of any such contract or other waiver shall be strictly construed in favor of preserving the constitutional rights of natural persons in this State.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-87.20 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law.|§ 1-87.20 - Application.

 1-87.20. Application.The provisions in this act shall apply only to proceedings or matters under Chapter 50 and Chapter 50A of the General Statutes.  (2013-416, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-105.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 8 - Summons.|§ 1-105.1 - Service on residents who establish residence outside the State and on residents who depart from the State.

 1-105.1. Service on residents who establish residence outside the State and on residents who depart from the State.The provisions of G.S. 1-105 of this Chapter shall also apply to a resident of the State at the time of the accident or collision who establishes residence outside the State subsequent to the accident or collision and to a resident of the State at the time of the accident or collision who departs from the State subsequent to the accident or collision and remains absent therefrom for 60 days or more, continuously whether such absence is intended to be temporary or permanent. (1955, c. 232; 1967, c. 954, s. 4; 1971, c. 420, ss. 1, 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-108 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 8 - Summons.|§ 1-108 - Defense after judgment set aside.

 1-108. Defense after judgment set aside.If a judgment is set aside pursuant to Rule 60(b) or (c) of the Rules of Civil Procedure and the judgment or any part thereof has been collected or otherwise enforced, such restitution may be compelled as the court directs. Title to property sold under such judgment to a purchaser in good faith is not thereby affected. No fiduciary officer or trustee who has made distribution of a fund under such judgment in good faith is personally liable if the judgment is changed by reason of such defense made after its rendition; nor in case the judgment was rendered for the partition of land, and any persons receiving any of the land in such partition sell it to a third person; the title of such third person is not affected if such defense is successful, but the redress of the person so defending after judgment shall be had by proper judgment against the parties to the original judgment and their heirs and personal representatives, and in no case affects persons who in good faith have dealt with such parties or their heirs or personal representatives on the basis of such judgment being permanent. (C.C.P., s. 85; Code, s. 220; Rev., s. 449; 1917, c. 68; C.S., s. 492; 1943, cc. 228, 543; 1947, c. 817, s. 2; 1949, c. 256; 1967, c. 954, s. 3.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-109 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 9 - Prosecution Bonds.|§ 1-109 - Bond required of plaintiff for costs.

 1-109. Bond required of plaintiff for costs.At any time after the issuance of summons, the clerk or judge, upon motion of the defendant, may, upon a showing of good cause, require the plaintiff to do one of the following things and the failure to comply with such order within 30 days from the date thereof shall constitute grounds for dismissal of such civil action or special proceeding:(1) Give an undertaking with sufficient surety in the sum of two hundred dollars, with the condition that it will be void if the plaintiff pays the defendant all costs which the latter recovers of him in the action.(2) Deposit two hundred dollars ($200.00) with him as security to the defendant for these costs, in which event the clerk must give to the plaintiff and defendant all costs which the latter recovers of him in the action.(3) File a copy of an order from a superior or district court judge or clerk of a superior court authorizing the plaintiff to sue as an indigent.The requirements of this section shall not apply to the State of North Carolina or any of its agencies, commissions or institutions, or to counties, drainage districts, cities and towns; provided, further, that the State of North Carolina or any of its agencies, commissions or institutions, and counties, drainage districts, cities and towns may institute civil actions and special proceedings without being required to give a prosecution bond or make deposit in lieu of bond. (R.C., c. 31, s. 40; C.C.P., s. 71; Code, s. 209; Rev., s. 450; C.S., s. 493; 1935, c. 398; 1949, c. 53; 1955, c. 10, s. 1; 1957, c. 563; 1961, c. 989; 1971, c. 268, s. 3; 1993, c. 435, s. 4; 1999-106, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-110 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 9 - Prosecution Bonds.|§ 1-110 - Suit as an indigent; counsel; suits filed pro se by prison inmates.

 1-110. Suit as an indigent; counsel; suits filed pro se by prison inmates.(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section with respect to prison inmates, any superior or district court judge or clerk of the superior court may authorize a person to sue as an indigent in their respective courts when the person makes affidavit that he or she is unable to advance the required court costs. The clerk of superior court shall authorize a person to sue as an indigent if the person makes the required affidavit and meets one or more of the following criteria:(1) Receives electronic food and nutrition benefits.(2) Receives Work First Family Assistance.(3) Receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI).(4) Is represented by a legal services organization that has as its primary purpose the furnishing of legal services to indigent persons.(5) Is represented by private counsel working on the behalf of or under the auspices of a legal services organization under subdivision (4) of this section.(6) Repealed by Session Laws 2002-126, s. 29A.6(d), effective October 1, 2002.A superior or district court judge or clerk of superior court may authorize a person who does not meet one or more of these criteria to sue as an indigent if the person is unable to advance the required court costs. The court to which the summons is returnable may dismiss the case and charge the court costs to the person suing as an indigent if the allegations contained in the affidavit are determined to be untrue or if the court is satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.(b) Whenever a motion to proceed as an indigent is filed pro se by an inmate in the custody of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety, the motion to proceed as an indigent and the proposed complaint shall be presented to any superior court judge of the judicial district. This judge shall determine whether the complaint is frivolous. In the discretion of the court, a frivolous case may be dismissed by order. The clerk of superior court shall serve a copy of the order of dismissal upon the prison inmate. If the judge determines that the inmate may proceed as an indigent, the clerk of superior court shall issue service of process nunc pro tunc to the date of filing upon the defendant.  (C.C.P., s. 72; 1868-9, c. 96, s. 2; Code, ss. 210, 211; Rev., ss. 451, 452; C.S., s. 494; 1971, c. 268, s. 4; 1993, c. 435, s. 1; 1995, c. 102, s. 1; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 591, s. 4; 1997-443, s. 12.22; 2002-126, s. 29A.6(d); 2007-97, s. 1; 2011-145, s. 19.1(h); 2017-158, s. 19; 2017-186, s. 2(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 1-111 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 9 - Prosecution Bonds.|§ 1-111 - Defendant's, for costs and damages in actions for land.

 1-111. Defendant's, for costs and damages in actions for land.In all actions for the recovery or possession of real property, the defendant, before he is permitted to plead, must execute and file in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county where the suit is pending an undertaking with sufficient surety, in an amount fixed by the court, not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00), to be void on condition that the defendant pays to the plaintiff all costs and damages which the latter recovers in the action, including damages for the loss of rents and profits. (1869-70, c. 193; Code, s. 237; Rev., s. 453; C.S., s. 495.)
NC Gen Stat § 1-112 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 1 - Civil Procedure|Article 9 - Prosecution Bonds.|§ 1-112 - Defense without bond.

 1-112. Defense without bond.(a) The undertaking prescribed in G.S. 1-111 is not necessary if an attorney practicing in the court where the action is pending certifies to the court in writing that he has examined the case of the defendant and is of the opinion that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover; and if the defendant also files an affidavit stating that he is unable to give and is not worth the amount of the undertaking in any property whatsoever.(b) An undertaking shall not be required in any summary ejectment action brought pursuant to Articles 3 or 7 of Chapter 42 of the General Statutes. (1869-70, c. 193; Code, s. 237; Rev., s. 454; C.S., s. 496; 1997-473, s. 2.)