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2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108 - Acknowledgments before notaries under age.

§ 47-108. Acknowledgments before notaries under age.
All acts of notaries public for the State of North Carolina who were not yet 21 years of age at the time of the performance of such acts are hereby validated; and in every case where deeds or other instruments have been acknowledged before such notary public who was not yet 21 years of age at the time of taking of said acknowledgment, such acknowledgment taken before such notary public is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid. (1941, c. 233.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.1 - Certain corporate deeds, etc., declared validly admitted to record.

§ 47-108.1. Certain corporate deeds, etc., declared validly admitted to record.
Deeds, conveyances and other instruments of writing of corporations entitled to registration, which have been heretofore duly executed in the manner required by law, by the proper officers of the corporation, and which have prior to March 8, 1943, been admitted to registration, on the acknowledgment or proof of the proper executing officer, in the manner required by law, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, in all respects validly admitted to record, although such officer at the date of such acknowledgment or proof had ceased to be an officer of such corporation, or such corporation at the date of such acknowledgment or proof had ceased to exist. (1943, c. 598.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.2 - Acknowledgments and examinations before notaries holding some other office.

§ 47-108.2. Acknowledgments and examinations before notaries holding some other office.
In every case where deeds or other instruments have been acknowledged, and where privy examination of wives had, 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 otherwise duly probated and recorded, such acknowledgment taken by, and such privy examination had before such notary public is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid. (1945, c. 149.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.3 - Validation of acts of certain notaries public prior to November 26, 1921.

§ 47-108.3. Validation of acts of certain notaries public prior to November 26, 1921.
In all cases where prior to November 26, 1921, instruments by law, or otherwise, required, permitted or authorized to be registered, certified, probated, recorded or filed with certificates of notaries public showing the acknowledgments or proofs of execution thereof as required by the laws of the State of North Carolina have been registered, certified, probated, recorded or filed, such registration, certifications, probates, recordations and filings are hereby validated and made as good and sufficient as though such instruments had been in all respects properly registered, certified, probated, recorded or filed, notwithstanding there are no records in the office of the Governor of the State of North Carolina or in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which such notaries public were to act that such persons acting as such notaries public had ever been appointed or subscribed written oaths or received any certificates or commissions or were qualified as notaries public at the time of the performance of the acts hereby validated. (1947, c. 102.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.4 - Acknowledgments, etc., of instruments of married women made since February 7, 1945.

§ 47-108.4. Acknowledgments, etc., of instruments of married women made since February 7, 1945.
All acknowledgments, probates and registrations of instruments wherein any married woman was a grantor, including deeds and mortgages on land, made since February 7, 1945, are hereby validated, approved and declared of full force and effect. (1947, c. 991, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.5 - Validation of certain deeds executed in other states where seal omitted.

§ 47-108.5. Validation of certain deeds executed in other states where seal omitted.
All deeds to lands in North Carolina, executed prior to January 1, 1991, without seal attached to the maker's name, which deeds were acknowledged in another state, the laws of which do not require a seal for the validity of a conveyance of real property located in that state, and which deeds have been duly recorded in this State, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the same had been executed under seal. (1949, cc. 87, 296; 1959, c. 797; 1983, c. 398, s. 6; 1985, c. 70, s. 6; 1987, c. 277, s. 6; 1989, c. 390, s. 6; 1991, c. 489, s. 6.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.6 - Validation of certain conveyances of foreign dissolved corporations.

§ 47-108.6. Validation of certain conveyances of foreign dissolved corporations.
In all cases when, prior to April 1, 2021, any dissolved foreign corporation has, prior to its dissolution, by deed of conveyance purported to convey real property in this State, and the instrument recites a consideration, is signed by the proper officers in the name of the corporation, sealed with the corporate seal and duly registered in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the land described in the instrument is located, but there is error in the attestation clause and acknowledgment in failing to identify the officers signing the deed and to recite that authority was duly given and that it was the act of the corporation, the deed has the same force and effect as if the attestation clause and acknowledgment were in every way proper. (1949, c. 1212; 2013-204, s. 1.35; 2021-91, s. 4(k).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.7 - Validation of acknowledgments, etc., by deputy clerks of superior court.

§ 47-108.7. Validation of acknowledgments, etc., by deputy clerks of superior court.
All acts heretofore performed by deputy clerks of the superior court in taking acknowledgments, examining witnesses and probating wills, deeds and other instruments required or permitted by law to be recorded are hereby validated: Provided, nothing in this section shall affect pending litigation. (1949, c. 1072.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.8 - Acts of registers of deeds or deputies in recording plats and maps by certain methods validated.

§ 47-108.8. Acts of registers of deeds or deputies in recording plats and maps by certain methods validated.
All acts heretofore performed by a register of deeds, or a deputy register of deeds in recording plats and maps by transcribing a correct copy thereof or permanently attaching the original to the records in a book designated "Book of Plats" is hereby validated the same as if said plats had been recorded as required by G.S. 47-30: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall affect pending litigation. (1949, c. 1073.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.9 - Validation of probate of instruments pursuant to § 47-12.

§ 47-108.9. Validation of probate of instruments pursuant to § 47-12.
The probates of all instruments taken on and after February 7, 1945, in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 47-12, as amended by section 11 of Chapter 73 of the Session Laws of 1945 and section 1 of Chapter 991 of the Session Laws of 1947 and as further amended by sections 2 and 3 of Chapter 815 of the Session Laws of 1949, are hereby in all respects validated; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to pending litigation. (1949, c. 815, s. 3.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.10 - Validation of registration of plats upon probate in accordance with § 47-30.

§ 47-108.10. Validation of registration of plats upon probate in accordance with § 47-30.
The registration of all plats which have prior to February 6, 1953, been admitted to registration upon probate thereof, in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 47-30 as amended by section 1 of Chapter 47 of the Session Laws of 1953, is hereby validated. (1953, c. 47, s. 2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.11 - Validation of recorded instruments where seals have been omitted.

§ 47-108.11. Validation of recorded instruments where seals have been omitted.
In all cases of any deed, deed of trust, mortgage, lien, or other instrument authorized or required to be registered in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State, where it appears of record or it appears that from the instrument, as recorded in the office of the register of deeds of any county in the State, that there has been omitted from the recorded or registered instrument the word "seal" or "notarial seal" and that any of the recorded or registered instruments shows or recites that the grantor or grantors "have hereunto fixed or set their hands and seals" and the signature of the grantor or grantors appears without a seal thereafter or on the recorded or registered instrument or in all cases where it appears there is an attesting clause that recites "signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of," and the signature of the grantor or grantors appears on the recorded or registered instrument without any seal appearing thereafter or of record, then all such deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, liens, or other instruments, and their registration in the office of the register of deeds, are in all respects valid and binding and are in all respects valid and binding to the same extent as if the word "seal" or "notarial seal" had not been omitted, and the registration and recording of the instruments in the office of the register of deeds in any county in this State are valid, proper, legal, and binding registrations.
This section does not apply in any respect to any instrument recorded or registered subsequent to April 1, 2021, or to pending litigation or to any instruments now directly or indirectly involved in pending litigation. (1953, c. 996; 1959, c. 1022; 1973, c. 519; c. 1207, s. 2; 1977, c. 165; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1185, s. 1; 1983, c. 398, s. 7; 1985, c. 70, s. 7; 1987, c. 277, s. 7; 1989, c. 390, s. 7; 1991, c. 489, s. 7; 1995, c. 163, s. 16; 1999-456, s. 12; 2013-204, s. 1.36; 2021-91, s. 4(l).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.12 - Validation of instruments acknowledged before United States commissioners.

§ 47-108.12. Validation of instruments acknowledged before United States commissioners.
All deeds, mortgages, or other instruments permitted or required by law to be registered, which prior to January 1, 1933, have been proved or acknowledged before a United States commissioner, or U.S. commissioner, are hereby in all respects validated as to such proof or acknowledgment, 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 and validated. (1953, c. 987.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.13 - Validation of certain instruments registered prior to January 1, 1934.

§ 47-108.13. Validation of certain instruments registered prior to January 1, 1934.
In all cases where prior to January 1, 1934 instruments by law required or authorized to be registered show the signatures and seal of each of the grantors therein and further show that each of such grantors has appeared before or signed such instruments in the presence of a notary public, justice of the peace or other person duly authorized to take acknowledgments, and such instruments have been ordered registered by the clerk of the superior court or other officer qualified to pass upon probate and admit instruments to registration, and actually put on the books in the office of the register of deeds, as if properly acknowledged, all such instruments and their registrations are hereby validated and made as good and sufficient as though such instruments had been in all respects properly acknowledged: Provided, that this section shall not apply to any privy examination or acknowledgment of a married woman. (1953, c. 1334.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.14 - Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration.

§ 47-108.14. Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration.
The United States of America, acting by and through the General Services Administration may convey lands and other property in the State of North Carolina which is transferable by deed, quitclaim deed, or other means of conveyances without the Regional Director or other duly authorized agent acting for and on behalf of the United States of America, adopting or placing a "seal," in any form, after the signature of the grantor's agent, or elsewhere on said deed, quitclaim deed, or other instrument, and the conveyances of the United States of America acting by and through the General Services Administration, and executed by its Regional Director or other duly authorized agent, although without a "seal" appearing thereon, shall be in all respects valid and binding to the same extent as if the word "seal" or some other type of seal, appeared after the signature of the grantor's agent, or elsewhere on said conveyances.
All conveyances prior to April 19, 1955, where any deed, quitclaim deed, or other instrument conveying land or other property in the State of North Carolina has been executed by the United States of America, by and through the General Services Administration, and said conveyances are authorized or required to be registered in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State, and it appears from said instrument, or said instrument as recorded in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State, that a seal has been omitted from said instruments, that notwithstanding the absence of a seal all such conveyances are hereby declared to be in all respects valid and binding to convey lands and property rights in the State of North Carolina to the grantees named therein, to the same extent as if the word "seal," or a seal in some other form, had appeared after the signature of the grantor's agent, or elsewhere on said conveyances, and the registration and recording of such conveyances in the office of the register of deeds in all counties in this State are hereby declared to be valid, proper, legal and binding registrations to the same extent as if such conveyances were executed under seal. (1955, c. 629, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.15 - Validation of registration of instruments filed before order of registration.

§ 47-108.15. Validation of registration of instruments filed before order of registration.
All deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, chattel mortgages, contracts and all other instruments required or permitted by law to be registered which have heretofore been accepted for filing and registration by registers of deeds on a date preceding the date of the clerk's order of registration are hereby validated, approved, confirmed and declared to be valid, proper, legal and binding registrations to the same extent as if such instruments had been accepted for filing and registration on the date of or subsequent to the date of the clerk's order of registration. (1957, c. 1430.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.16 - Validation of certain deeds executed by nonresident banks.

§ 47-108.16. Validation of certain deeds executed by nonresident banks.
All deeds and other conveyances of land in this State executed on behalf of banks not incorporated in the State of North Carolina, by a trust officer thereof, and properly recorded on or before December 31, 1963, which deeds are otherwise regular and valid, are hereby validated. (1965, c. 610.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.17 - Validation of certain deeds where official capacity not designated.

§ 47-108.17. Validation of certain deeds where official capacity not designated.
In all cases where an executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, guardian or commissioner has executed a deed, deed of trust or other instrument of conveyance permitted by law to be registered in this State and the granting clause of the instrument sets forth the official capacity of the grantor, neither the failure to redesignate the grantor's official capacity following his or her signature nor the failure to designate the official capacity of the grantor in the acknowledgment of the instrument shall invalidate the conveyance provided the instrument is otherwise properly executed. (1973, c. 1220, s. 1.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.18 - Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat validated.

§ 47-108.18. Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat validated.
A notarial jurat constitutes an acknowledgment in due form for all plats or maps that have heretofore been accepted for filing and registration under G.S. 47-30 as amended. No plat or map heretofore accepted for filing and registration, that contains a notarial jurat instead of an acknowledgment may be held to be improperly registered solely for lack of a proper acknowledgment. (1983, c. 391.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.18A - Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial acknowledgment.

§ 47-108.18A. Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial acknowledgment.
A notarial acknowledgment constitutes a jurat in due form for all instruments that have heretofore been accepted for filing and registration under this Chapter or which relate to real estate located within this State. (2013-204, s. 1.37.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.18B - Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat.

§ 47-108.18B. Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat.
A notarial jurat constitutes an acknowledgment in due form for all instruments that have heretofore been accepted for filing and registration under this Chapter or which relate to real estate located within this State. (2013-204, s. 1.37.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.19 - Validation of certain maps and plats that cannot be copied.

§ 47-108.19. Validation of certain maps and plats that cannot be copied.
All maps and plats registered before June 1, 1983, pursuant to G.S. 47-30 that met all of the requirements of that statute except that they were not on a material from which legible copies could be made or did not contain the original of the surveyor's signature and acknowledgment are declared to be valid registrations. (1983, c. 756.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.20 - Validation of certain recorded instruments that were not acknowledged.

§ 47-108.20. Validation of certain recorded instruments that were not acknowledged.
All instruments recorded before April 1, 2021, that were not reexecuted and reacknowledged and that correct an obvious typographical or other minor error in a recorded instrument that was previously properly executed and acknowledged are valid instruments. (1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 842, s. 2; 2013-204, s. 1.38; 2021-91, s. 4(m).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.21 - Sales for 1930 on dates other than first Monday in June validated.

§ 47-108.21. Sales for 1930 on dates other than first Monday in June validated.
All sales of land for failure to pay taxes held or conducted by any sheriff or any tax collector of any county, city, town, or other municipality during the year 1930, on any day subsequent to or other than the first Monday in June of said year, are hereby approved, confirmed, validated, and declared to be proper, valid, and legal sales of such land and legally binding in all respects, and all certificates of sale made and issued upon and in accordance with such sales are hereby approved and validated to all intents and purposes with such full force and legal effect as if said sales had been held and conducted on said first Monday of June, 1930. (1931, c. 160; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1987, c. 777, s. 4(1).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.22 - Tax sales for 1931-32 on day other than law provides and certificates validated.

§ 47-108.22. Tax sales for 1931-32 on day other than law provides and certificates validated.
All sales of land for failure to pay taxes held or conducted by any sheriff or any tax collector of any county, city, town, or other municipality during the years 1931 and 1932, on any day subsequent to or other than the first Monday in June of said year, are hereby approved, confirmed, validated, and declared to be proper, valid, and legal sales of such land and legally binding in all respects, and all certificates of sale made and issued upon and in accordance with such sales approved and validated to all intents and purposes with such full force and legal effect as if said sales had been held and conducted on said first Monday of June, 1931 and 1932. (1933, c. 177; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1987, c. 777, s. 4(1).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.23 - Tax sales for 1933-34 and certificates validated.

§ 47-108.23. Tax sales for 1933-34 and certificates validated.
All sales of land for failure to pay taxes held or conducted by any sheriff or any tax collector of any county, city, town, or other municipality during the years 1933 and 1934, or on any date subsequent to or other than the date prescribed by law, and all certificates of sale executed and issued pursuant to and in accordance with such sales be and the same are hereby approved, confirmed, and validated and shall have the same force and legal effect as if said sales had been held and conducted on the date prescribed by law.
The board of county commissioners of any county or the governing board of any city, town, or other municipality may by resolution order the sheriff or tax collecting officer of the said county, city, town, or other municipality to advertise in the manner provided by law and sell all land for the taxes of any year levied by the said county, city, town, or other municipality, which land has not heretofore been legally sold for the failure to pay said taxes. The sale or sales herein authorized shall be held not later than the first Monday in September 1935, and certificates of sale shall be issued in accordance with and pursuant to said sale or sales in the same manner as if said sale or sales had been held and conducted as provided by law. Any sale held and conducted under the provisions of this paragraph and all certificates issued pursuant to such a sale shall be and the same are hereby approved, confirmed, and validated and shall have the same force and legal effect as if said sale had been held and conducted on the date prescribed by law.
All actions instituted in any county, city, town, or other municipality for the foreclosure of certificates of sale issued for the taxes of the years 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932 subsequent to October 1, 1934, and all such actions instituted before October 1, 1935, shall be and the same are hereby approved, validated, and declared to be legally binding and of the same force and effect as if said actions were instituted prior to October 1, 1934: Provided, that this section shall not be construed to repeal any private or local act passed by the General Assembly of 1935. (1935, c. 331; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1987, c. 777, s. 4(1).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.24 - Notices of sale for taxes by publication validated.

§ 47-108.24. Notices of sale for taxes by publication validated.
All sales of real property under tax certificate foreclosures made between January 1, 1927, and March 13, 1937, where the original notice of sale was published for four successive weeks, and any notice of resale was published for two successive weeks, preceding said sales, whether the notice of sale was required to be published in a newspaper or at courthouse door, or both, shall be, and the same are in all respects validated as to publication of said notice: Provided said publication was completed as above set out within 10 days of the date of the sale.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the Counties of Alleghany, Beaufort, Cabarrus, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Currituck, Halifax, Harnett, Henderson, Hertford, Hyde, Iredell, Johnston, Jones, Macon, Mitchell, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Perquimans, Pitt, Polk, Rowan, Rutherford, Scotland, Surry, Wake, Warren, Washington, and Wayne. (1937, c. 128; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1987, c. 777, s. 4(1).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.25 - Validation of sales and resales held pursuant to § 105-374.

§ 47-108.25. Validation of sales and resales held pursuant to § 105-374.
All sales or resales held prior to April 14, 1951, pursuant to G.S. 105-374, where the advertisement was in accordance with G.S. 1-327 and 1-328 as provided by such sections prior to their repeal, are validated to the same extent as if such advertisement were in accordance with Article 29A of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes; and all such sales, where the provisions of G.S. 45-28 as to resales, as provided by such section prior to its repeal, were followed, are validated to the same extent as if the resale procedure provided for in Article 29A of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes had been followed. (1951, c. 1036, s. 2; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1987, c. 777, s. 4(1).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.26 - Validation of reconveyances of tax foreclosed property by county boards of commissioners.

§ 47-108.26. Validation of reconveyances of tax foreclosed property by county boards of commissioners.
The action of county boards of commissioners taken prior to March 20, 1951, reconveying tax foreclosed property by private sale to the former owners or other interested parties for amounts not less than such counties' interest therein is hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated. (1951, c. 300, s. 2; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1987, c. 777, s. 4.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.27 - Title to real property affected by boundary certification; liens.

§ 47-108.27. Title to real property affected by boundary certification; liens.
(a) Title to real property previously treated as being subject to the jurisdiction of the State of South Carolina but that is recognized as being within the boundaries of this State as a result of the certification of the boundary is not affected by the certification of the boundary or the recognition of the real property as being within the boundaries of this State. All conveyances and instruments of title, of any sort, made prior to the certification of the boundary shall be recognized and given full faith and credit in this State according to the law, jurisdiction, and terms in effect at the time of the conveyance in the jurisdiction the property was previously treated as being subject to. For the purposes of this subsection, "instruments of title" means any instrument that affects title or constitutes the chain of title to real property, including, but not limited to, all deeds, wills, estate documents evidencing transfer of title, plats, surveys, easements, rights-of-way, outstanding mortgages and deeds of trust, judicial orders or decrees, and documents evidencing intestate succession.
(b) Liens recorded prior to the date of boundary certification with the register of deeds or docketed with the clerk of superior court in the county in this State where the affected parcel is situated shall attach, as a class, to the affected parcel as of the effective date and time of the boundary certification. This class of liens shall be assigned priority as of the date of boundary certification but shall retain the same priority among themselves as if this subsection did not apply. (2016-23, ss. 3(c), (d).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration. › § 47-108.28 - Seven-year curative statute.

§ 47-108.28. Seven-year curative statute.
(a) An instrument conveying or purporting to convey an interest in real property that contains a defect, irregularity, or omission shall be deemed effective to vest title as stated therein and to the same extent as though the instrument had not contained the material defect, irregularity, or omission, if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The instrument is recorded by the register of deeds in the county or counties where the property is situated.
(2) The material defect, irregularity, or omission is not corrected within seven years after the instrument was recorded.
The proper recordation and indexing of a curative instrument or a notice of lis pendens shall toll the seven-year curative period.
(b) For the purposes of this section only, an instrument shall be deemed to contain a "defect, irregularity, or omission" when any of the following conditions are met:
(1) The recorded instrument lacks any of the following:
a. A properly executed form of acknowledgment as provided under Article 3 of this Chapter or Chapter 10B of the General Statutes.
b. The proper recital of consideration paid.
c. The residence of a party.
d. The address of the property.
e. The address of a party.
f. The date of the instrument.
g. The date of any instrument or obligation secured by the instrument.
h. The proper affixation of seal by any person authorized to execute an instrument by virtue of an office or appointment held by the grantor that is required to affix the seal to the recorded instrument under applicable law.
(2) The name of a grantor, trustor, mortgagor, assignor, borrower, or other person with an interest in the property does not appear in any part of the instrument, but the person executed the instrument without limitation or qualification. The person who executed the instrument without limitation or qualification shall be deemed to have conveyed or encumbered (as applicable) any interest or right such person then had in the property conveyed or encumbered by the terms of the instrument.
(c) Nothing in this section is intended to modify any provisions of law pertaining to the competency or infancy of the grantor or the provisions of Chapter 22 of the General Statutes or to limit any remedies available under the laws of this State. (2017-110, s. 3; 2021-91, s. 12.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States. › § 47-109 - Book for record of discharges in office of register of deeds; specifications.

§ 47-109. Book for record of discharges in office of register of deeds; specifications.
There shall be provided, and at all times maintained, in the office of the register of deeds of each county in North Carolina a special and permanent book, in which shall be recorded official discharges from the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps and other branches of the Armed Forces of the United States. The book shall be securely bound, and the pages of the book shall be printed in the form of discharge papers, with sufficient blank lines for the recording of such dates as may be contained in the discharge papers offered for registration. (1921, c. 198, s. 1; C.S., s. 3366(k); 1945, c. 659, s. 2; 2011-183, s. 34.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States. › § 47-110 - Registration of official discharge or certificate of lost discharge.

§ 47-110. Registration of official discharge or certificate of lost discharge.
Upon the presentation to the register of deeds of any county of any official discharge, or official certificate of lost discharge, from the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or any other branch of the Armed Forces of the United States the register of deeds shall record the same without charge in the book provided for in G.S. 47-109. (1921, c. 198, s. 2; C.S., s. 3366(l); 1943, c. 599; 1945, c. 659, s. 1; 2011-183, s. 35.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States. › § 47-111 - Inquiry by register of deeds; oath of applicant.

§ 47-111. Inquiry by register of deeds; oath of applicant.
If any register of deeds shall be in doubt as to whether or not any paper so presented for registration is an official discharge from the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or any other branch of the Armed Forces of the United States or an official certificate of lost discharge, the register of deeds shall have power to examine, under oath, the person so presenting such discharge, or otherwise inquire into its validity; and every register of deeds to whom a discharge or certificate of lost discharge is presented for registration shall administer to the person offering such discharge or certificate of lost discharge for registration the following oath, to be recorded with and form a part of the registration of such discharge or certificate of lost discharge:
"I, ______________, being duly sworn, depose and say that the foregoing discharge (or certificate of lost discharge) is the original discharge (or certificate of lost discharge) issued to me by the government of the United States; and that no alterations have been made therein by me, or by any person to my knowledge.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ________ day of ________, ________"
(1921, c. 198, s. 3; C.S., s. 3366(m); 1999-456, s. 59; 2011-183, s. 36.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States. › § 47-112 - Forgery or alteration of discharge or certificate; punishment.

§ 47-112. Forgery or alteration of discharge or certificate; punishment.
Any person who shall forge, or in any manner alter any discharge or certificate of lost discharge issued by the government of the United States, and offer the same for registration or secure the registration of the same under the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1921, c. 198, s. 4; C.S., s. 3366(n); 1993, c. 539, s. 409; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States. › § 47-113 - Certified copy of registration.

§ 47-113. Certified copy of registration.
Any person desiring a certified copy of any such discharge, or certificate of lost discharge, registered under the provisions of this Article shall apply for the same to the register of deeds of the county in which such discharge or certificate of lost discharge is registered. The register of deeds shall furnish certified copies of instruments registered under this Article without charge to any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States who applies therefor. (1921, c. 198, s. 5; C.S., s. 3366(o); 1945, c. 659, s. 3; 1969, c. 80, s. 11; 2011-183, s. 37.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States. › § 47-114 - Payment of expenses incurred.

§ 47-114. Payment of expenses incurred.
The county commissioners of each county are hereby authorized and empowered in their discretion to appropriate from the general fund of the county an amount sufficient to cover any additional expense incurred by the register of deeds of the county in carrying out the purposes of this Article. (1945, c. 659, s. 3 1/2.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 6 - Registration and Execution of Instruments Signed under a Power of Attorney. › § 47-115 - Execution in name of either principal or attorney-in-fact; indexing in names of both.

§ 47-115. Execution in name of either principal or attorney-in-fact; indexing in names of both.
Any instrument in writing executed by an attorney-in-fact shall be good and valid as the instrument of the principal, whether or not said instrument is signed and/or acknowledged in the name of the principal by the attorney-in-fact or by the attorney-in-fact designating himself as attorney-in-fact for the principal or acknowledged in the name of the attorney-in-fact without naming the principal from which it will appear that it was the purpose of the attorney-in-fact to be acting for and on behalf of the principal mentioned or referred to in the instrument. This section shall not affect any pending litigation or the status of any matter heretofore determined by the courts. This section shall apply to all such instruments heretofore or hereafter executed. Registers of deeds shall be required to index all such instruments filed for registration both in the name of the principal or principals executing the powers of appointment and in the name of the attorney-in-fact executing the instrument: Provided, that instruments heretofore registered and indexed only in the name of the attorney-in-fact shall be valid and in all respects binding upon the principal or principals insofar as validity of registration is concerned. (1945, c. 204; 1959, c. 210.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 8 - Memoranda of Leases and Options. › § 47-117 - Forms do not preclude use of others; adaptation of forms.

§ 47-117. Forms do not preclude use of others; adaptation of forms.
(a) The form prescribed in this Article does not exclude the use of other forms which are sufficient in law.
(b) The prescribed form may be adapted to fit the various situations in which the grantors or grantees are individuals, firms, associations, corporations, or otherwise, or combinations thereof. (1961, c. 1174.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 8 - Memoranda of Leases and Options. › § 47-118 - Forms of registration of lease.

§ 47-118. Forms of registration of lease.
(a) A lease of land or land and personal property may be registered by registering a memorandum thereof which shall set forth:
(1) The names of the parties thereto;
(2) A description of the property leased;
(3) The term of the lease, including extensions, renewals and options to purchase, if any; and
(4) Reference sufficient to identify the complete agreement between the parties.
Such a memorandum may be in substantially the following form:
(Name and address or description of lessor or lessors)
hereby lease(s) to ,
(Name and address or description of lessee or lessees)
for a term beginning the ____________ day of ____________________________, _____
(Month) (Year)
and continuing for a maximum period of ___________, including extensions and renewals, if any, the following property:
(If applicable: [There exists an option to purchase with respect to this leased property, in favor of the lessee which expires the ____ day of ________________, _______, which
(Month) (Year)
is set forth at large in the complete agreement between the parties].)
The provisions set forth in a written lease agreement between the parties dated the _____ day of _______________, ______, are hereby incorporated in this memorandum.
(Month) (Year)
[Seal]
(Lessor)
[Seal]
(Lessee)
(Acknowledgment as required by law.)
(b) If the provisions of the lease make it impossible or impractical to state the maximum period of the lease because of conditions, renewals and extensions, or otherwise, then the memorandum of lease shall state in detail all provisions concerning the term of the lease as fully as set forth in the written lease agreement between the parties.
(c) Registration of a memorandum of lease pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section, shall have the same legal effect as if the written lease agreement had been registered in its entirety. (1961, c. 1174; 1999-456, s. 59.)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 8 - Memoranda of Leases and Options. › § 47-119 - Memorandum for option to purchase or convey, right of first refusal, or right of first offer for real estate.

§ 47-119. Memorandum for option to purchase or convey, right of first refusal, or right of first offer for real estate.
An option to purchase or convey, a right of first refusal, or a right of first offer for real estate may be registered by registering a memorandum that sets forth all of the following:
(1) The names and signatures, executed and notarized, of all of the following:
a. Each record title holder selling the option or right.
b. Each person purchasing the option or right.
(2) A description of the real estate that is subject to the option or right.
(3) The expiration date of the option or right.
(4) The title of the agreement and the parties to it, as contained in the original written contract, or other reference sufficient to identify the complete agreement between the parties. (1961, c. 1174; 1999-456, s. 59; 2022-64, s. 2(a).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 8 - Memoranda of Leases and Options. › § 47-119.1 - Memorandum for contract to purchase real estate.

§ 47-119.1. Memorandum for contract to purchase real estate.
A contract to convey real estate may be registered by registering a memorandum that sets forth all of the following:
(1) The names and signatures, executed and notarized, of all of the following:
a. Each record title holder contracting to convey an interest in the real estate.
b. Each person contracting to purchase the real estate.
(2) A description of the real estate that is subject to the contract.
(3) The expiration date of the contract.
(4) The title of the agreement and the parties to it, as contained in the original written contract, or other reference sufficient to identify the complete agreement between the parties. (2011-351, s. 1; 2022-64, s. 2(b).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration › Article 8 - Memoranda of Leases and Options. › § 47-120 - Memorandum as notice.

§ 47-120. Memorandum as notice.
A memorandum of a lease, an option to purchase or convey, a right of first refusal, a right of first offer, or a contract to convey real estate as proposed by G.S. 47-118, 47-119, or 47-119.1 when executed by each record title holder and each other party to the instrument, acknowledged before a notary public, and delivered and registered as required by law, is as good and sufficient notice, and has the same force and effect as if the instrument had been registered in its entirety. However, it is conclusively presumed that the conditions of any instrument reflected in a memorandum have either been complied with or have expired and are no longer enforceable against creditors or purchasers for valuable consideration that have recorded their interests 60 days after the earlier of the following:
(1) The expiration date stated in the memorandum, or any recorded extension or renewal of the memorandum, signed by the parties and acknowledged before a notary public.
(2) The date when the memorandum required the conditions to have been performed, including payment of the last installment of earnest money or balance of purchase price, other than a purchase money note or deed of trust, and delivery of the deed from seller to buyer, or the date of any recorded extension or renewal signed by the parties and acknowledged before a notary public. (1961, c. 1174; 2011-351, s. 2; 2022-64, s. 2(c).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47A - Unit Ownership › Article 1 - Unit Ownership Act. › § 47A-2 - Declaration creating unit ownership; recordation.

§ 47A-2. Declaration creating unit ownership; recordation.
Unit ownership may be created by an owner or the co-owners of a building by an express declaration of their intention to submit such property to the provisions of the Article, which declaration shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the property is situated. Notwithstanding the formation of a condominium by a declaration pursuant to this section and specifically referencing this Chapter, those provisions of Chapter 47C of the General Statutes that are made applicable to condominiums formed on or before October 1, 1986, pursuant to G.S. 47C-1-102 shall apply and are not in conflict with this Chapter. (1963, c. 685, s. 2; 1983, c. 624, s. 2; 2022-12, s. 3(b).)
2023 North Carolina General Statutes › Chapter 47A - Unit Ownership › Article 1 - Unit Ownership Act. › § 47A-4 - Property subject to Article.

§ 47A-4. Property subject to Article.
This Article shall be applicable only to property, the full owner or all of the owners of which submit the same to the provisions hereof by duly executing and recording a declaration as hereinafter provided. (1963, c. 685, s. 4; 1983, c. 624, s. 2.)