NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1279

HOUSE BILL 945

 

 

AN ACT REQUIRING THAT ALL DEEDS, DEEDS OF TRUST AND MORTGAGES ON REAL ESTATE ACCEPTED FOR PROBATE AND REGISTRATION IN THE COUNTIES DESIGNATED HEREIN SHALL SHOW THEREON THE NAME OF THE DRAFTSMAN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Clerks of the Superior Courts of the counties named below shall not accept for probate or recordation any deed, deed of trust or mortgage conveying any real estate, executed after July 1, 1959, unless there shall appear on such deed, deed of trust or mortgage the name of the person or firm who drafted such instrument, or unless in some similar manner the draftsman shall be designated thereon or therewith and the name of the draftsman may appear following the words, "drawn by", on such instrument or cover thereof or in any other manner so that the draftsman may be designated: Provided that such instruments prepared in other counties of North Carolina or in other states or counties for probate or recordation in any of said counties, or such instruments prepared by any party thereto may be accepted for probate or recordation without the name of the draftsman appearing thereon or being designated thereon or therewith; and, any such instruments may be probated and recorded without the name of the draftsman appearing thereon or being designated therewith when it shall be established to the satisfaction of the Clerk of Superior Court that, after due diligence, the draftsman cannot be determined or is deceased.

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to the following counties: Beaufort, Edgecombe, Nash, Richmond, Henderson, Montgomery, Robeson and Stanly.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1959.