NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 60
HOUSE BILL 257

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN CORPORATE CONVEYANCES WITHOUT SEAL EXECUTED PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1971.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 55-158 is hereby amended by rewriting this Section to read as follows:
"§ 55-158.  Certain corporate conveyances validated. — All deeds and conveyances of land in this State, made by any corporation of this State prior to January 1, 1971, executed in its corporate name and signed and attested by its proper officers, from which the corporate seal was omitted, shall be good and valid, notwithstanding the failure to attach said corporate seal."
Sec. 2.  This act does not apply to pending litigation.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of March, 1971.