43-17.3. Answer by person claiming interest.
Any person asserting a claim or any interest in such registered land may, at any time prior to the hearing provided for in G.S. 43-17.4, file such answer or other pleadings as may be proper, asserting his rights or claims to the property referred to in the petition. (1943, c. 466, s. 1.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 43 - Land Registration
Article 4 - Registration and Effect.
§ 43-13 - Manner of registration.
§ 43-14 - Cross-indexing of lands by registers of deeds.
§ 43-16 - Certificates numbered; entries thereon.
§ 43-17 - New certificate issued, if original lost.
§ 43-17.2 - Publication of notice; service of process.
§ 43-17.3 - Answer by person claiming interest.
§ 43-17.5 - Issuance of new certificate validated.
§ 43-18 - Registered owner's estate free from adverse claims; exceptions.
§ 43-19 - Adverse claims existing at initial registry; affidavit; limitation of action.
§ 43-20 - Decree and registration run with the land.
§ 43-21 - No right by adverse possession.
§ 43-22 - Jurisdiction of courts; registered land affected only by registration.