NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 483

HOUSE BILL 506

 

 

AN ACT VALIDATING OFFICIAL ACTS OF NOTARIES PUBLIC WHEREIN NOTARIAL SEALS DO NOT CONTAIN READABLE IMPRESSIONS OF THE NOTARIES' NAMES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  All deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, conveyances, affidavits and all other paper writings similar or dissimilar to those enumerated herein, whether or not permitted or required to be recorded or filed under the laws of this State heretofore executed, bearing the official act of a notary public as attested by his notarial seal, but which seal does not contain a readable impression of the notary's name are, together with all subsequent acts or actions taken thereon, including but not limited to probate and registration, hereby declared in all respects to be valid to the same extent as if a seal containing a readable impression of the notary's name had been affixed thereto, and shall be binding on the parties of such paper writings and their privies; and such paper writings, together with their certificates, if otherwise competent, may be read in evidence as a muniment of title for all intents and purposes in any of the courts of this State.

Sec. 2.  That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall not affect pending litigation.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1961.