39-13.1. Validation of certain deeds, etc., executed by married women without private examination.
(a) No deed, contract, conveyance, leasehold or other instrument executed since the seventh day of November, 1944, shall be declared invalid because of the failure to take the private examination of any married woman who was a party to such deed, contract, conveyance, leasehold or other instrument.
(b) Any deed, contract, conveyance, lease or other instrument executed prior to February 7, 1945, which is in all other respects regular except for the failure to take the private examination of a married woman who is a party to such deed, contract, conveyance, lease or other instrument is hereby validated and confirmed to the same extent as if such private examination had been taken, provided that this section shall not apply to any instruments now involved in any pending litigation. (1945, c. 73, s. 21 1/2; 1969, c. 1008, s. 1.)
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North Carolina General Statutes
Article 2 - Conveyances by Husband and Wife.
§ 39-7 - Instruments affecting married person's title; joinder of spouse; exceptions.
§ 39-7.1 - Certain instruments affecting married woman's title not executed by husband validated.
§ 39-8 - Acknowledgment at different times and places; before different officers; order immaterial.
§ 39-9 - Absence of wife's acknowledgment does not affect deed as to husband.
§ 39-11 - Certain conveyances not affected by fraud if acknowledgment or privy examination regular.
§ 39-12 - Power of attorney of married person.
§ 39-13 - Spouse need not join in purchase-money mortgage.
§ 39-13.3 - Conveyances between husband and wife.
§ 39-13.4 - Conveyances by husband or wife under deed of separation.
§ 39-13.5 - Recodified as G.S41-56(c) by Session Laws 2020-50, s1(b), effective June 30, 2020.
§ 39-13.6 - Control of real property held in tenancy by the entirety.
§ 39-13.7 - Recodified as G.S41-65 by Session Laws 2020-50, s1(b), effective June 30, 2020.