28C-21. When agents' acts binding on estate of absentee.
Acts of an agent of an absentee, carried out in good faith, prior to the appointment of a receiver under this Chapter, shall be binding on the estate of such absentee if said acts were within the scope of the agent's real or apparent authority. (1965, c. 815, s. 1; 1973, c. 1329, s. 2.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 28C - Estates of Missing Persons
§ 28C-1 - Death not presumed from seven years' absence; exposure to peril to be considered.
§ 28C-2 - Action for receiver; contents of complaint; parties.
§ 28C-3 - Procedure on complaint.
§ 28C-4 - Notice to interested persons.
§ 28C-6 - Procedure after notice.
§ 28C-8 - Powers and duties of permanent receiver.
§ 28C-9 - Search for absentee.
§ 28C-10 - Claims against absentee.
§ 28C-11 - Final finding and decree.
§ 28C-12 - Termination of receivership.
§ 28C-13 - Distribution of property of absentee.
§ 28C-14 - Additional limitations on accounting, distribution or making claim by absentee.
§ 28C-15 - When claim of absentee barred.
§ 28C-16 - Laws of administration of estates applicable.
§ 28C-17 - Appointment of public administrator as receiver for estate of less than $1,000.
§ 28C-18 - Payment of insurance policies.
§ 28C-19 - Absentee Insurance Fund.
§ 28C-20 - Provisions applicable to person held incommunicado in foreign country.