47-17. Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc.
All deeds, contracts or leases, before registration, except those executed prior to January 1, 1870, shall be acknowledged by the grantor, lessor or the person executing the same, or their signature proven on oath by one or more witnesses in the manner prescribed by law, and all deeds executed and registered according to law shall be valid, and pass title and estates without livery of seizin, attornment or other ceremony. (29, Ch. II, c. 3; 1715, c. 7; 1756, c. 58, s. 3; 1838-9, c. 33; R.C., c. 37, s. 1; Code, s. 1245; 1885, c. 147, s. 3; 1905, c. 277; Rev., s. 979; C.S., s. 3308.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration
§ 47-17 - Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc.
§ 47-18 - Conveyances, contracts to convey, options, and leases of land.
§ 47-18.1 - Registration of certificate of entity name change, merger, consolidation, or conversion.
§ 47-18.2 - Registration of Inheritance and Estate Tax Waiver.
§ 47-18.3 - Execution of corporate instruments; authority and proof.
§ 47-19 - Unregistered deeds prior to January, 1920, registered on affidavit.
§ 47-20.1 - Place of registration; real property.
§ 47-20.2 - Place of registration; personal property.
§ 47-20.3 - Place of registration; instruments covering both personal property and real property.
§ 47-20.4 - Place of registration; chattel real.
§ 47-20.5 - Real property; effectiveness of after-acquired property clause.
§ 47-20.6 - Affidavit for permanent attachment of titled manufactured home to real property.
§ 47-22 - Counties may provide for photographic or photostatic registration.
§ 47-24 - Conditional sales or leases of railroad property.
§ 47-25 - Marriage settlements.
§ 47-29 - Recording of bankruptcy records.
§ 47-29.1 - Recordation of environmental notices.
§ 47-30 - Plats and subdivisions; mapping requirements.
§ 47-30.1 - Plats and subdivisions; alternative requirements.
§ 47-31 - Certified copies may be registered; used as evidence.
§ 47-32 - Photographic copies of plats, etc.
§ 47-32.1 - Photostatic copies of plats, etc.; alternative provisions.
§ 47-32.2 - Violation of § 47-30 or § 47-32 a misdemeanor.
§ 47-33 - Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian may be registered.
§ 47-34 - Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian admissible in evidence.
§ 47-35 - Register to fill in deeds on blank forms with lines.
§ 47-36 - Errors in registration corrected on petition to clerk.
§ 47-36.1 - Notice of errors in recorded instruments of title.
§ 47-36.2 - Cure of obvious description errors in recorded instruments.