§ 39-6.7 – Construction of conveyances to or by trusts.
39-6.7. Construction of conveyances to or by trusts. (a) A deed, will, beneficiary designation, or other instrument that purports to convey, devise, or otherwise transfer any ownership or security interest in real or personal property to a trust shall be deemed to be a transfer to the trustee or trustees of that trust. (b) A […]
§ 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 […]
§ 39-1.1 – In construing conveyances court shall give effect to intent of the parties.
39-1.1. In construing conveyances court shall give effect to intent of the parties. (a) In construing a conveyance executed after January 1, 1968, in which there are inconsistent clauses, the courts shall determine the effect of the instrument on the basis of the intent of the parties as it appears from all of the provisions […]
§ 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. […]