47-81.2. Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.
In all cases where instruments and writings have been proved or acknowledged before any commissioned officer of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard or any officer of the United States Merchant Marine having the rank of lieutenant, senior grade, or higher, such proofs or acknowledgments, where valid in other respects, are hereby ratified, confirmed and declared valid. All proofs or acknowledgments made by any military personnel authorized by the Congress of the United States are hereby ratified, confirmed, and declared valid and shall not require the affixation of a seal where valid in other respects. (1943, c. 159, s. 2; 2011-183, s. 32; 2013-204, s. 1.27.)
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.
§ 47-87 - Validation of probates by different officers of deeds by wife and husband.
§ 47-88 - Registration without formal order validated.
§ 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.
§ 47-95 - 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.
§ 47-108 - 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.
§ 47-108.9 - 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.
§ 47-108.15 - 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.
§ 47-108.27 - Title to real property affected by boundary certification; liens.