Chapter 47

194 published sections.

Article 1 - Probate

N.C.G.S. § 47-1 — Officials of State authorized to take probate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-2 — Officials of the United States, foreign countries, and sister states.
N.C.G.S. § 47-2.1 — Validation of instruments proved before officers of certain ranks.
N.C.G.S. § 47-2.2 — Notary public of sister state; lack of seal or stamp or expiration date of commission.
N.C.G.S. § 47-5 — When seal of officer necessary to probate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-6 — Officials may act although land or maker's residence elsewhere.
N.C.G.S. § 47-8.1 — Certain documents verified by attorneys validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-9 — Probates before stockholders in building and loan associations.
N.C.G.S. § 47-10 — Probate before stockholders or directors in banking corporations.
N.C.G.S. § 47-11 — Subpoenas to maker and subscribing witnesses.
N.C.G.S. § 47-12 — Proof of attested instrument by subscribing witness.
N.C.G.S. § 47-12.1 — Proof of attested instrument by proof of handwriting.
N.C.G.S. § 47-12.2 — Subscribing witness incompetent when grantee or beneficiary.
N.C.G.S. § 47-13 — Proof of unattested writing.
N.C.G.S. § 47-13.1 — Certificate of officer taking proof of instrument.
N.C.G.S. § 47-14 — Register of deeds to verify the presence of proof or acknowledgement and register instruments and electronic documents; order by judge; instruments to which register of deeds is a party.
N.C.G.S. § 47-14.1 — Repeal of laws requiring private examination of married women.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16 — Probate of corporate deeds, where corporation has ceased to exist.

Article 1A - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

N.C.G.S. § 47-16.1 — Short title.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16.2 — Definitions.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16.3 — Validity of electronic documents.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16.4 — Recording of documents.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16.5 — Administration and standards.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16.6 — Uniformity of application and construction.
N.C.G.S. § 47-16.7 — Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Article 2 - Registration

N.C.G.S. § 47-17 — Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc.
N.C.G.S. § 47-17.1 — Documents registered or ordered to be registered in certain counties to designate draftsman; exceptions.
N.C.G.S. § 47-17.2 — Assignments of mortgages, deeds of trust, or other agreements pledging real property as security.
N.C.G.S. § 47-18 — Conveyances, contracts to convey, options, and leases of land.
N.C.G.S. § 47-18.1 — Registration of certificate of entity name change, merger, consolidation, or conversion.
N.C.G.S. § 47-18.2 — Registration of Inheritance and Estate Tax Waiver.
N.C.G.S. § 47-18.3 — Execution of corporate instruments; authority and proof.
N.C.G.S. § 47-19 — Unregistered deeds prior to January, 1920, registered on affidavit.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20 — Deeds of trust, mortgages, conditional sales contracts, assignments of leases and rents; effect of registration.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.1 — Place of registration; real property.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.2 — Place of registration; personal property.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.3 — Place of registration; instruments covering both personal property and real property.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.4 — Place of registration; chattel real.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.5 — Real property; effectiveness of after-acquired property clause.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.6 — Affidavit for permanent attachment of titled manufactured home to real property.
N.C.G.S. § 47-20.7 — Declaration of intent to affix manufactured home; transfer of real property with manufactured home attached.
N.C.G.S. § 47-21 — Blank or master forms of mortgages, etc.; embodiment by reference in instruments later filed.
N.C.G.S. § 47-22 — Counties may provide for photographic or photostatic registration.
N.C.G.S. § 47-24 — Conditional sales or leases of railroad property.
N.C.G.S. § 47-25 — Marriage settlements.
N.C.G.S. § 47-26 — Deeds of gift.
N.C.G.S. § 47-27 — Deeds of easements.
N.C.G.S. § 47-28 — Powers of attorney.
N.C.G.S. § 47-29 — Recording of bankruptcy records.
N.C.G.S. § 47-29.1 — Recordation of environmental notices.
N.C.G.S. § 47-30 — Plats and subdivisions; mapping requirements.
N.C.G.S. § 47-30.1 — Plats and subdivisions; alternative requirements.
N.C.G.S. § 47-30.2 — Review Officer.
N.C.G.S. § 47-31 — Certified copies may be registered; used as evidence.
N.C.G.S. § 47-32 — Photographic copies of plats, etc.
N.C.G.S. § 47-32.1 — Photostatic copies of plats, etc.; alternative provisions.
N.C.G.S. § 47-32.2 — Violation of § 47-30 or § 47-32 a misdemeanor.
N.C.G.S. § 47-33 — Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian may be registered.
N.C.G.S. § 47-34 — Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian admissible in evidence.
N.C.G.S. § 47-35 — Register to fill in deeds on blank forms with lines.
N.C.G.S. § 47-36 — Errors in registration corrected on petition to clerk.
N.C.G.S. § 47-36.1 — Notice of errors in recorded instruments of title.
N.C.G.S. § 47-36.2 — Cure of obvious description errors in recorded instruments.

Article 3 - Forms of Acknowledgment, Probate and Order of Registration

N.C.G.S. § 47-37.1 — Other forms of proof.
N.C.G.S. § 47-38 — Acknowledgment by grantor.
N.C.G.S. § 47-40 — Husband's acknowledgment and wife's acknowledgment before the same officer.
N.C.G.S. § 47-41.01 — Corporate conveyances.
N.C.G.S. § 47-41.1 — Corporate seal.
N.C.G.S. § 47-41.02 — Other forms of probate for corporate conveyances.
N.C.G.S. § 47-41.2 — Technical defects.
N.C.G.S. § 47-42 — Attestation of bank conveyances by secretary or cashier.
N.C.G.S. § 47-43 — Form of certificate of acknowledgment of instrument executed by agent.
N.C.G.S. § 47-43.1 — Execution and acknowledgment of instruments by attorneys or attorneys-in-fact.
N.C.G.S. § 47-43.2 — Officer's certificate upon proof of instrument by subscribing witness.
N.C.G.S. § 47-43.3 — Officer's certificate upon proof of instrument by proof of signature of maker.
N.C.G.S. § 47-43.4 — Officer's certificate upon proof of instrument by proof of signature of subscribing witness.
N.C.G.S. § 47-44 — Clerk's certificate upon probate by justice of peace or magistrate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-45 — Clerk's certificate upon probate by nonresident official without seal.
N.C.G.S. § 47-46.1 — Notice of satisfaction of deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument.
N.C.G.S. § 47-46.2 — Certificate of satisfaction of deed of trust, mortgage, or other instrument.
N.C.G.S. § 47-46.3 — Affidavit of lost note.

Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration

N.C.G.S. § 47-47 — Defective order of registration; "same" for "this instrument".
N.C.G.S. § 47-48 — Clerks' and registers of deeds' certificate failing to pass on all prior certificates.
N.C.G.S. § 47-49 — Defective certification or adjudication of clerk, etc., admitting to registration.
N.C.G.S. § 47-50 — Order of registration omitted.
N.C.G.S. § 47-50.1 — Register's certificate omitted.
N.C.G.S. § 47-51 — Official deeds omitting seals.
N.C.G.S. § 47-52 — Defective acknowledgment on old deeds validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-53 — Probates omitting official seals, etc.
N.C.G.S. § 47-53.1 — Acknowledgment omitting seal of clerk or notary public.
N.C.G.S. § 47-54 — Registration by register's deputies or clerks.
N.C.G.S. § 47-54.1 — Registration by register's assistants or deputies.
N.C.G.S. § 47-55 — Before officer in wrong capacity or out of jurisdiction.
N.C.G.S. § 47-56 — Before justices of peace, where clerk's certificate or order of registration defective.
N.C.G.S. § 47-57 — Probates on proof of handwriting of maker refusing to acknowledge.
N.C.G.S. § 47-58 — Before judges of Supreme Court or superior courts or clerks before 1889.
N.C.G.S. § 47-59 — Before clerks of inferior courts.
N.C.G.S. § 47-60 — Order of registration by judge, where clerk party.
N.C.G.S. § 47-61 — Order of registration by interested clerk.
N.C.G.S. § 47-62 — Probates before interested notaries.
N.C.G.S. § 47-63 — Probates before officer of interested corporation.
N.C.G.S. § 47-64 — Probates before officers, stockholders or directors of corporations.
N.C.G.S. § 47-65 — Clerk's deeds, where clerk appointed himself to sell.
N.C.G.S. § 47-66 — Certificate of wife's "previous" examination.
N.C.G.S. § 47-67 — Probates of husband and wife in wrong order.
N.C.G.S. § 47-68 — Probates of husband and wife before different officers.
N.C.G.S. § 47-69 — Wife free trader; no examination or husband's assent.
N.C.G.S. § 47-70 — By president and attested by treasurer under corporate seal.
N.C.G.S. § 47-71 — By president and attested by witness before January, 1900.
N.C.G.S. § 47-71.1 — Corporate seal omitted prior to January 1, 2000.
N.C.G.S. § 47-72 — Corporate name not affixed, but signed otherwise prior to April 1, 2021.
N.C.G.S. § 47-73 — Probated and registered on oath of subscribing witness.
N.C.G.S. § 47-74 — Certificate alleging examination of grantor instead of witness.
N.C.G.S. § 47-75 — Proof of corporate articles before officer authorized to probate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-76 — Before officials of wrong state.
N.C.G.S. § 47-77 — Before notaries and clerks in other states.
N.C.G.S. § 47-78 — Acknowledgment by resident taken out-of-state.
N.C.G.S. § 47-79 — Before deputy clerks of courts of other states.
N.C.G.S. § 47-80 — Sister state probates without Governor's authentication.
N.C.G.S. § 47-81 — Before commissioners of deeds.
N.C.G.S. § 47-81.1 — Before commissioner of oaths.
N.C.G.S. § 47-81.2 — Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.
N.C.G.S. § 47-82 — Foreign probates omitting seals.
N.C.G.S. § 47-83 — Before consuls general.
N.C.G.S. § 47-84 — Before vice-consuls and vice-consuls general.
N.C.G.S. § 47-85 — Before masters in chancery.
N.C.G.S. § 47-85.1 — Further as to acknowledgments, etc., before masters in chancery.
N.C.G.S. § 47-86 — Validation of probate of deeds by clerks of courts of record of other states, where official seal is omitted.
N.C.G.S. § 47-87 — Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband.
N.C.G.S. § 47-88 — Registration without formal order validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-89 — Same subject.
N.C.G.S. § 47-90 — Validation of acknowledgments taken by notaries public holding other office.
N.C.G.S. § 47-91 — Validation of certain probates of deeds before consular agents of the United States.
N.C.G.S. § 47-92 — Probates before stockholders and directors of banks.
N.C.G.S. § 47-93 — Acknowledgments taken by stockholder, officer, or director of bank.
N.C.G.S. § 47-94 — Acknowledgment and registration by officer or stockholder in building and loan or savings and loan association.
N.C.G.S. § 47-95 — Acknowledgments taken by notaries interested as trustee or holding other office.
N.C.G.S. § 47-96 — Validation of instruments registered without probate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-97 — Validation of corporate deed with mistake as to officer's name.
N.C.G.S. § 47-97.1 — Validation of corporate deeds containing error in acknowledgment or probate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-98 — Registration on defective probates beyond State.
N.C.G.S. § 47-99 — Certificates of clerks without seal.
N.C.G.S. § 47-100 — Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor.
N.C.G.S. § 47-101 — Seal of acknowledging officer omitted; deeds made presumptive evidence.
N.C.G.S. § 47-102 — Absence of notarial seal.
N.C.G.S. § 47-103 — Deeds probated and registered with notary's seal not affixed, validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-104 — Acknowledgments of notary holding another office.
N.C.G.S. § 47-105 — Acknowledgment and private examination of married woman taken by officer who was grantor.
N.C.G.S. § 47-106 — Certain instruments in which clerk of superior court was a party, validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-107 — Validation of probate and registration of certain instruments where name of grantor omitted from record.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108 — Acknowledgments before notaries under age.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.1 — Certain corporate deeds, etc., declared validly admitted to record.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.2 — Acknowledgments and examinations before notaries holding some other office.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.3 — Validation of acts of certain notaries public prior to November 26, 1921.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.4 — Acknowledgments, etc., of instruments of married women made since February 7, 1945.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.5 — Validation of certain deeds executed in other states where seal omitted.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.6 — Validation of certain conveyances of foreign dissolved corporations.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.7 — Validation of acknowledgments, etc., by deputy clerks of superior court.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.8 — Acts of registers of deeds or deputies in recording plats and maps by certain methods validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.9 — Validation of probate of instruments pursuant to § 47-12.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.10 — Validation of registration of plats upon probate in accordance with § 47-30.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.11 — Validation of recorded instruments where seals have been omitted.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.12 — Validation of instruments acknowledged before United States commissioners.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.13 — Validation of certain instruments registered prior to January 1, 1934.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.14 — Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.15 — Validation of registration of instruments filed before order of registration.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.16 — Validation of certain deeds executed by nonresident banks.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.17 — Validation of certain deeds where official capacity not designated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.18 — Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.18A — Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial acknowledgment.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.18B — Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.19 — Validation of certain maps and plats that cannot be copied.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.20 — Validation of certain recorded instruments that were not acknowledged.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.21 — Sales for 1930 on dates other than first Monday in June validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.22 — Tax sales for 1931-32 on day other than law provides and certificates validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.23 — Tax sales for 1933-34 and certificates validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.24 — Notices of sale for taxes by publication validated.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.25 — Validation of sales and resales held pursuant to § 105-374.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.26 — Validation of reconveyances of tax foreclosed property by county boards of commissioners.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.27 — Title to real property affected by boundary certification; liens.
N.C.G.S. § 47-108.28 — Seven-year curative statute.

Article 5 - Registration of Official Discharges from the Armed Forces of the United States

N.C.G.S. § 47-109 — Book for record of discharges in office of register of deeds; specifications.
N.C.G.S. § 47-110 — Registration of official discharge or certificate of lost discharge.
N.C.G.S. § 47-111 — Inquiry by register of deeds; oath of applicant.
N.C.G.S. § 47-112 — Forgery or alteration of discharge or certificate; punishment.
N.C.G.S. § 47-113 — Certified copy of registration.
N.C.G.S. § 47-113.2 — Restricting access to military discharge documents.
N.C.G.S. § 47-114 — Payment of expenses incurred.

Article 6 - Registration and Execution of Instruments Signed under a Power of Attorney

N.C.G.S. § 47-115 — Execution in name of either principal or attorney-in-fact; indexing in names of both.

Article 8 - Memoranda of Leases and Options

N.C.G.S. § 47-117 — Forms do not preclude use of others; adaptation of forms.
N.C.G.S. § 47-118 — Forms of registration of lease.
N.C.G.S. § 47-119 — Memorandum for option to purchase or convey, right of first refusal, or right of first offer for real estate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-119.1 — Memorandum for contract to purchase real estate.
N.C.G.S. § 47-120 — Memorandum as notice.