North Carolina General Statutes
Article 2A - Probate of Will.
§ 28A-2A-21 - Validation of wills admitted on oath of one subscribing witness.

28A-2A-21. Validation of wills admitted on oath of one subscribing witness.
In all cases where last wills and testaments which appear as recorded in the record of last wills and testaments to have had two witnesses thereto and such last wills and testaments were admitted to probate and recorded in the record of wills in the proper county in this State prior to the first day of January, 1890, upon the oath and examination of one of the witnesses, such proof being taken in writing and recorded, and the certificate of probate of the clerk of the court states that such a will is proven by one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and the handwriting of the other subscribing witness being a nonresident is proven under oath, and such a will and certificate has been recorded in the record of wills of the proper county, such probate is hereby validated as fully as if the proof of the handwriting of the nonresident witness had been taken in regular form in writing and recorded. (1929, c. 41, ss. 1, 2; 2011-344, s. 3.)

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.