NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1014

HOUSE BILL 914

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 47-56 SO AS TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACTS OF CLERKS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN CERTIFICATES, REGISTRATION AND PROOFS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 47-56, as the same appears in the 1961 Supplement to the General Statutes, is rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 47-56.  In every case where it appears from the record of the office of any register of deeds in this State that a justice of the peace in this State or any other State of the United States, has taken and certified the proof of any instrument required by the law to be registered, or the privy examination of a married woman thereto, and the deed and certificate have been registered prior to the first day of January, 1963, in the county where the lands described in the instrument are located, without a certificate or with a defective certificate of the clerk of the official character of the justice, or as to the genuineness of his signature, or without the order of registration of the clerk, or his adjudication of due probate, or with a defective adjudication thereof, such proofs, certificates and registration are hereby validated."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1963.