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General Statutes

Chapter 1

697 published sections.

Article 1 - Definitions

Article 2 - General Provisions

Article 3 - Limitations, General Provisions

Article 4 - Limitations, Real Property

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-35 Title against State.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-36 Title presumed out of State.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-37 Such possession valid against claimants under State.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-38 Seven years' possession under color of title.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-39 Seizin within twenty years necessary.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-40 Twenty years adverse possession.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-41 Action after entry.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42 Possession follows legal title; severance of surface and subsurface rights.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.1 Certain ancient mineral claims extinguished in certain counties.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.2 Certain additional ancient mineral claims extinguished; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded and listed for taxation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.3 Additional ancient mineral claims extinguished in certain counties; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded and listed for taxation in such counties.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.4 Additional ancient mineral claims extinguished in Ashe County; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded and listed for taxation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.5 Additional ancient mineral claims extinguished in Avery County; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded in such county.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.6 Additional ancient oil, gas or mineral interests extinguished in Alleghany County; recording interests; listing interests for taxation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.7 Additional amount mineral claims extinguished in Chatham County; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded and listed for taxation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.8 Ancient mineral claims extinguished in Rutherford County; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded and listed for taxation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-42.9 Ancient mineral claims extinguished; oil, gas and mineral interests to be recorded and listed for taxation.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-43 Tenant's possession is landlord's.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-44 No title by possession of right-of-way.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-44.1 Presumption of abandonment of railroad right-of-way.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-44.2 Presumptive ownership of abandoned railroad easements.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-45 No title by possession of public ways.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-45.1 No adverse possession of property subject to public trust rights.

Article 5 - Limitations, Other Than Real Property

Article 5A - Limitations, Actions Not Otherwise Limited

Article 6 - Parties

Article 6A - Jurisdiction

Article 7 - Venue

Article 7A - Application of Foreign Law

Article 8 - Summons

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-105 Service upon nonresident drivers of motor vehicles and upon the personal representatives of deceased nonresident drivers of motor vehicles.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-105.1 Service on residents who establish residence outside the State and on residents who depart from the State.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-108 Defense after judgment set aside.

Article 9 - Prosecution Bonds

Article 10 - Joint and Several Debtors

Article 11 - Lis Pendens

Article 15 - Answer

Article 17 - Pleadings, General Provisions

Article 18 - Amendments

Article 19 - Trial

Article 22 - Verdict and Exceptions

Article 23 - Judgment

Article 26 - Declaratory Judgments

Article 26A - Three-Judge Panel for Redistricting Challenges and for Certain Challenges to State Laws

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-267.1 Three-judge panel for actions challenging plans apportioning or redistricting State legislative or congressional districts; claims challenging the facial validity of an act of the General Assembly.

Article 26B - Distribution of Unpaid Residuals in Class Action Litigation

Article 27 - Appeal

Article 27A - Appeals and Transfers from the Clerk

Article 28 - Execution

Article 29A - Judicial Sales

Article 29B - Execution Sales

Article 29C - Validating Sections

Article 30 - Betterments

Article 31 - Supplemental Proceedings

Article 33 - Special Proceedings

Article 34 - Arrest and Bail

Article 35 - Attachment

Article 36 - Claim and Delivery

Article 37 - Injunction

Article 38 - Receivers

Article 38A - North Carolina Commercial Receivership Act

Article 39 - Deposit or Delivery of Money or Other Property

Article 41 - Quo Warranto

Article 42 - Waste

Article 43 - Nuisance and Other Wrongs

Article 43B - Defense of Charitable Immunity Abolished; and Qualified Immunity for Volunteers

Article 43C - Actions Pertaining to Local Units of Government

Article 43D - Abolition of Parent-Child Immunity in Motor Vehicle Cases

Article 43F - Immunity for Damage to Vehicle

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-539.27 Immunity from civil liability for damage to railroad car, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, boat, or other watercraft necessary for assistance.

Article 44 - Compromise

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-540 By agreement receipt of less sum is discharge.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-540.1 Effect of release of original wrongdoer on liability of physicians and surgeons for malpractice.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-540.2 Settlement of property damage claims arising from motor vehicle collisions or accidents; same not to constitute admission of liability, nor bar party seeking damages for bodily injury or death.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-540.3 Advance payments.

Article 44A - Tender

Article 44B - Structured Settlement Protection Act

Article 45B - International Commercial Arbitration and Conciliation

Article 45C - Revised Uniform Arbitration Act

Article 48 - Notices

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-589.1 Withholding information necessary for service on law-enforcement officer prohibited.

Article 49 - Time

Article 50 - General Provisions as to Legal Advertising

Article 51 - False Claims Act

Article 52 - Limited Civil Liability of Domestic Violence Shelters and Persons Associated With the Shelters

  • N.C.G.S. § 1-630 Definitions.
  • N.C.G.S. § 1-631 Immunity of a domestic violence shelter and any person associated with the shelter concerning torts committed on the shelter's premises.

Article 53 - Uniform Collaborative Law Act