North Carolina General Statutes
Article 2A - Probate of Will.
§ 28A-2A-14 - Validation of wills heretofore certified and recorded.

28A-2A-14. Validation of wills heretofore certified and recorded.
All wills which have prior to March 9, 1921, been certified and recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of any county, substantially following the provisions of G.S. 28A-2A-13, are hereby validated and approved as to the conveyance and transfer of any title to real estate as contained therein, to the same extent as if said wills had originally been probated and filed in said county, and the clerk of the superior court of said county had had jurisdiction to probate the same, provided the probates and witnesses to the said wills are sufficient and according to law. (1921, c. 108, s. 2; C.S., s. 4146(a); 2011-344, ss. 3, 4.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 28A - Administration of Decedents' Estates

Article 2A - Probate of Will.

§ 28A-2A-1 - Executor may apply for probate.

§ 28A-2A-2 - Executor failing, beneficiary may apply.

§ 28A-2A-3 - Clerk to notify devisees of probate of wills.

§ 28A-2A-4 - Clerk shall compel production of will.

§ 28A-2A-5 - What shown on application for probate.

§ 28A-2A-6 - Proof and examination in writing.

§ 28A-2A-7 - Probate in solemn form.

§ 28A-2A-8 - Manner of probate of attested written will.

§ 28A-2A-9 - Manner of probate of holographic will.

§ 28A-2A-10 - Manner of probate of nuncupative will.

§ 28A-2A-11 - Probate of wills of members of the Armed Forces of the United States.

§ 28A-2A-12 - Probate conclusive until vacated; substitution of consolidated bank as executor or trustee under will.

§ 28A-2A-13 - Wills filed in clerk's office; certified copies filed for real property in other counties.

§ 28A-2A-14 - Validation of wills heretofore certified and recorded.

§ 28A-2A-15 - Certified copy of will proved in another state or country.

§ 28A-2A-16 - Examination of witnesses by affidavit.

§ 28A-2A-17 - Certified copy of will of nonresident recorded.

§ 28A-2A-18 - Probates validated where proof taken by commissioner or another clerk.

§ 28A-2A-19 - Probates in another state before 1860 validated.

§ 28A-2A-20 - Validation of wills recorded without probate by subscribing witnesses.

§ 28A-2A-21 - Validation of wills admitted on oath of one subscribing witness.

§ 28A-2A-22 - Validation of probates of wills when witnesses examined before notary public; acts of deputy clerks validated.

§ 28A-2A-23 - Validation of wills when recorded without order of probate or registration upon oath and examination of subscribing witness or witnesses.