reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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).)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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).)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-105 - Acknowledgment and private examination of married woman taken by officer who was grantor.

§ 47-105. Acknowledgment and private examination of married woman taken by officer who was grantor.
In all cases where a deed or deeds of mortgages or other conveyances of land dated prior to the first day of January, 1926, purporting to convey lands have been registered in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the lands conveyed in said deeds are located prior to said first day of January, 1926, and the acknowledgments or proof of execution of such deed or deeds and the private examination of any married woman who is a grantor in such deed or deeds have been taken as to some of the grantors, and the private examination of any married woman grantor in such deed has been taken by an officer who was himself one of the grantors named in such deed or deeds, such defective execution, acknowledgment, proof of execution and the private examination of such married woman, evidenced by the certificate thereof on such deed and the registration thereof as above described and set forth, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be in all respects valid, and such deed or deeds or other conveyances of land are 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 or taking the private examination of such married woman and certifying thereto upon such deed or deeds had not been named as grantor therein and had not been interested therein in any way whatsoever. (1937, c. 91.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-106 - Certain instruments in which clerk of superior court was a party, validated.

§ 47-106. Certain instruments in which clerk of superior court was a party, validated.
In all cases where a deed, or other conveyance of land dated prior to the first day of January, 1918, purporting to convey land, wherein the grantor or one of the grantors therein was at the time clerk of the superior court of the county where the land purporting to be conveyed was located, was acknowledged, proof of execution, privy examination of a married woman, and, or, order of registration had and taken before a deputy clerk of the superior court of said county, and the instrument registered upon the order of said deputy clerk of the superior court in the office of the register of deeds of said county, within two years from the date of said instrument, such instrument and its probate are hereby in all respects validated and confirmed; and such instrument, together with such defective acknowledgment, proof of execution, privy examination of a married woman, order of registration, and the certificate of such deputy clerk of the superior court, and the registration thereof, are hereby declared in all respects to be valid and binding upon the parties of such instrument and their privies, and such instrument so probated and recorded together with its certificates may be read in evidence as a muniment of title, for all intents and purposes, in any of the courts of this State. (1939, c. 261.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-107 - Validation of probate and registration of certain instruments where name of grantor omitted from record.

§ 47-107. Validation of probate and registration of certain instruments where name of grantor omitted from record.
Whenever any deed, deed of trust, conveyance or other instrument permitted by law to be registered in this State has been registered for a period of 21 years or more and a clerk of the superior court or a register of deeds has adjudged the certificate of the officer before whom the acknowledgment was taken to be in due form and correct and has ordered the instrument to be recorded, but the name of a grantor which appears in the body of the instrument and as a signer of the instrument has been omitted from the record of the certificate of the officer before whom the acknowledgment was taken, such deed, deed of trust, conveyance or other instrument shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly acknowledged, probated and recorded; provided this presumption shall not affect litigation instituted within 21 years after date of registration. (1941, c. 30; 1971, c. 825.)