North Carolina General Statutes
Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.
§ 47-108.14 - Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration.

47-108.14. Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration.
The United States of America, acting by and through the General Services Administration may convey lands and other property in the State of North Carolina which is transferable by deed, quitclaim deed, or other means of conveyances without the Regional Director or other duly authorized agent acting for and on behalf of the United States of America, adopting or placing a "seal," in any form, after the signature of the grantor's agent, or elsewhere on said deed, quitclaim deed, or other instrument, and the conveyances of the United States of America acting by and through the General Services Administration, and executed by its Regional Director or other duly authorized agent, although without a "seal" appearing thereon, shall be in all respects valid and binding to the same extent as if the word "seal" or some other type of seal, appeared after the signature of the grantor's agent, or elsewhere on said conveyances.
All conveyances prior to April 19, 1955, where any deed, quitclaim deed, or other instrument conveying land or other property in the State of North Carolina has been executed by the United States of America, by and through the General Services Administration, and said conveyances are authorized or required to be registered in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State, and it appears from said instrument, or said instrument as recorded in the office of the register of deeds of any county in this State, that a seal has been omitted from said instruments, that notwithstanding the absence of a seal all such conveyances are hereby declared to be in all respects valid and binding to convey lands and property rights in the State of North Carolina to the grantees named therein, to the same extent as if the word "seal," or a seal in some other form, had appeared after the signature of the grantor's agent, or elsewhere on said conveyances, and the registration and recording of such conveyances in the office of the register of deeds in all counties in this State are hereby declared to be valid, proper, legal and binding registrations to the same extent as if such conveyances were executed under seal. (1955, c. 629, s. 1.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration

Article 4 - Curative Statutes; Acknowledgments; Probates; Registration.

§ 47-47 - Defective order of registration; "same" for "this instrument".

§ 47-48 - Clerks' and registers of deeds' certificate failing to pass on all prior certificates.

§ 47-49 - Defective certification or adjudication of clerk, etc., admitting to registration.

§ 47-50 - Order of registration omitted.

§ 47-50.1 - Register's certificate omitted.

§ 47-51 - Official deeds omitting seals.

§ 47-52 - Defective acknowledgment on old deeds validated.

§ 47-53 - Probates omitting official seals, etc.

§ 47-53.1 - Acknowledgment omitting seal of clerk or notary public.

§ 47-54 - Registration by register's deputies or clerks.

§ 47-54.1 - Registration by register's assistants or deputies.

§ 47-55 - Before officer in wrong capacity or out of jurisdiction.

§ 47-56 - Before justices of peace, where clerk's certificate or order of registration defective.

§ 47-57 - Probates on proof of handwriting of maker refusing to acknowledge.

§ 47-58 - Before judges of Supreme Court or superior courts or clerks before 1889.

§ 47-59 - Before clerks of inferior courts.

§ 47-60 - Order of registration by judge, where clerk party.

§ 47-61 - Order of registration by interested clerk.

§ 47-62 - Probates before interested notaries.

§ 47-63 - Probates before officer of interested corporation.

§ 47-64 - Probates before officers, stockholders or directors of corporations.

§ 47-65 - Clerk's deeds, where clerk appointed himself to sell.

§ 47-66 - Certificate of wife's "previous" examination.

§ 47-67 - Probates of husband and wife in wrong order.

§ 47-68 - Probates of husband and wife before different officers.

§ 47-69 - Wife free trader; no examination or husband's assent.

§ 47-70 - By president and attested by treasurer under corporate seal.

§ 47-71 - By president and attested by witness before January, 1900.

§ 47-71.1 - Corporate seal omitted prior to January 1, 2000.

§ 47-72 - Corporate name not affixed, but signed otherwise prior to April 1, 2021.

§ 47-73 - Probated and registered on oath of subscribing witness.

§ 47-74 - Certificate alleging examination of grantor instead of witness.

§ 47-75 - Proof of corporate articles before officer authorized to probate.

§ 47-76 - Before officials of wrong state.

§ 47-77 - Before notaries and clerks in other states.

§ 47-78 - Acknowledgment by resident taken out-of-state.

§ 47-79 - Before deputy clerks of courts of other states.

§ 47-80 - Sister state probates without Governor's authentication.

§ 47-81 - Before commissioners of deeds.

§ 47-81.1 - Before commissioner of oaths.

§ 47-81.2 - Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.

§ 47-82 - Foreign probates omitting seals.

§ 47-83 - Before consuls general.

§ 47-84 - Before vice-consuls and vice-consuls general.

§ 47-85 - Before masters in chancery.

§ 47-85.1 - Further as to acknowledgments, etc., before masters in chancery.

§ 47-86 - Validation of probate of deeds by clerks of courts of record of other states, where official seal is omitted.

§ 47-87 - Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband.

§ 47-88 - Registration without formal order validated.

§ 47-89 - Same subject.

§ 47-90 - Validation of acknowledgments taken by notaries public holding other office.

§ 47-91 - Validation of certain probates of deeds before consular agents of the United States.

§ 47-92 - Probates before stockholders and directors of banks.

§ 47-93 - Acknowledgments taken by stockholder, officer, or director of bank.

§ 47-94 - Acknowledgment and registration by officer or stockholder in building and loan or savings and loan association.

§ 47-95 - Acknowledgments taken by notaries interested as trustee or holding other office.

§ 47-96 - Validation of instruments registered without probate.

§ 47-97 - Validation of corporate deed with mistake as to officer's name.

§ 47-97.1 - Validation of corporate deeds containing error in acknowledgment or probate.

§ 47-98 - Registration on defective probates beyond State.

§ 47-99 - Certificates of clerks without seal.

§ 47-100 - Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor.

§ 47-101 - Seal of acknowledging officer omitted; deeds made presumptive evidence.

§ 47-102 - Absence of notarial seal.

§ 47-103 - Deeds probated and registered with notary's seal not affixed, validated.

§ 47-104 - Acknowledgments of notary holding another office.

§ 47-105 - Acknowledgment and private examination of married woman taken by officer who was grantor.

§ 47-106 - Certain instruments in which clerk of superior court was a party, validated.

§ 47-107 - Validation of probate and registration of certain instruments where name of grantor omitted from record.

§ 47-108 - Acknowledgments before notaries under age.

§ 47-108.1 - Certain corporate deeds, etc., declared validly admitted to record.

§ 47-108.2 - Acknowledgments and examinations before notaries holding some other office.

§ 47-108.3 - Validation of acts of certain notaries public prior to November 26, 1921.

§ 47-108.4 - Acknowledgments, etc., of instruments of married women made since February 7, 1945.

§ 47-108.5 - Validation of certain deeds executed in other states where seal omitted.

§ 47-108.6 - Validation of certain conveyances of foreign dissolved corporations.

§ 47-108.7 - Validation of acknowledgments, etc., by deputy clerks of superior court.

§ 47-108.8 - Acts of registers of deeds or deputies in recording plats and maps by certain methods validated.

§ 47-108.9 - Validation of probate of instruments pursuant to § 47-12.

§ 47-108.10 - Validation of registration of plats upon probate in accordance with § 47-30.

§ 47-108.11 - Validation of recorded instruments where seals have been omitted.

§ 47-108.12 - Validation of instruments acknowledged before United States commissioners.

§ 47-108.13 - Validation of certain instruments registered prior to January 1, 1934.

§ 47-108.14 - Conveyances by the United States acting by and through the General Services Administration.

§ 47-108.15 - Validation of registration of instruments filed before order of registration.

§ 47-108.16 - Validation of certain deeds executed by nonresident banks.

§ 47-108.17 - Validation of certain deeds where official capacity not designated.

§ 47-108.18 - Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat validated.

§ 47-108.18A - Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial acknowledgment.

§ 47-108.18B - Registration of certain instruments containing a notarial jurat.

§ 47-108.19 - Validation of certain maps and plats that cannot be copied.

§ 47-108.20 - Validation of certain recorded instruments that were not acknowledged.

§ 47-108.21 - Sales for 1930 on dates other than first Monday in June validated.

§ 47-108.22 - Tax sales for 1931-32 on day other than law provides and certificates validated.

§ 47-108.23 - Tax sales for 1933-34 and certificates validated.

§ 47-108.24 - Notices of sale for taxes by publication validated.

§ 47-108.25 - Validation of sales and resales held pursuant to § 105-374.

§ 47-108.26 - Validation of reconveyances of tax foreclosed property by county boards of commissioners.

§ 47-108.27 - Title to real property affected by boundary certification; liens.

§ 47-108.28 - Seven-year curative statute.