§ 39-7 – Instruments affecting married person's title; joinder of spouse; exceptions.
39-7. Instruments affecting married person’s title; joinder of spouse; exceptions. (a) In order to waive the elective life estate of either husband or wife as provided for in G.S. 29-30, every conveyance or other instrument affecting the estate, right or title of any married person in lands, tenements or hereditaments must be executed by such […]
§ 39-7.1 – Certain instruments affecting married woman's title not executed by husband validated.
39-7.1. Certain instruments affecting married woman’s title not executed by husband validated. No conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument affecting the estate, right or title of any married woman in lands, tenements or hereditaments which was executed by such married woman prior to June 8, 1965, shall be invalid for the reason that the […]
§ 39-8 – Acknowledgment at different times and places; before different officers; order immaterial.
39-8. Acknowledgment at different times and places; before different officers; order immaterial. In all cases of deeds, or other instruments executed by husband and wife and requiring registration, the probate of such instruments as to the husband and due proof or acknowledgment of the wife may be taken before different officers authorized by law to […]
§ 39-9 – Absence of wife's acknowledgment does not affect deed as to husband.
39-9. Absence of wife’s acknowledgment does not affect deed as to husband. When an instrument purports to be signed by a husband and wife the instrument may be ordered registered, if the acknowledgment of the husband is duly taken, but no such instrument shall be the act or deed of the wife unless proven or […]
§ 39-11 – Certain conveyances not affected by fraud if acknowledgment or privy examination regular.
39-11. Certain conveyances not affected by fraud if acknowledgment or privy examination regular. No deed conveying lands nor any instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, executed by husband and wife since the eleventh of March, 1889, if the acknowledgment or private examination of the wife is thereto certified as prescribed by law, […]
§ 39-2 – Vagueness of description not to invalidate.
39-2. Vagueness of description not to invalidate. No deed or other writing purporting to convey land or an interest in land shall be declared void for vagueness in the description of the thing intended to be granted by reason of the use of the word "adjoining" instead of the words "bounded by," or for the […]
§ 39-4 – Conveyances by infant trustees.
39-4. Conveyances by infant trustees. When an infant is seized or possessed of any estate in trust, whether by way of mortgage or otherwise, for another person who may be entitled in law to have a conveyance of such estate, or may be declared to be seized or possessed, in the course of any proceeding […]
§ 39-5 – Official deed, when official selling or empowered to sell is not in office.
39-5. Official deed, when official selling or empowered to sell is not in office. When a sheriff, coroner, or tax collector, in virtue of his office, sells any real or personal property and goes out of office before executing a proper deed therefor, he may execute the same after his term of office has expired; […]
§ 39-6 – Revocation of deeds of future interests made to persons not in esse.
39-6. Revocation of deeds of future interests made to persons not in esse. The grantor in any voluntary conveyance in which some future interest in real estate is conveyed or limited to a person not in esse may, at any time before he comes into being, revoke by deed such interest so conveyed or limited. […]
§ 39-6.1 – Validation of deeds of revocation of conveyances of future interests to persons not in esse.
39-6.1. Validation of deeds of revocation of conveyances of future interests to persons not in esse. All deeds or instruments heretofore executed, revoking any conveyance of future interest made to persons not in esse, are hereby validated insofar as any such deed of revocation may be in conflict with the provisions of G.S. 39-6. All […]