98-11. Replacing lost official conveyances.
Where any conveyance executed by any person, sheriff, clerk and master, or commissioner of court has been lost, and registry thereof destroyed as aforesaid, and there is no copy thereof, such persons, whether in or out of office, may execute another of like tenor and date, reciting therein that the same is a duplicate, and such deed shall be evidence of the facts therein recited, in all cases wherein the parties thereto are dead, or are incompetent witnesses to prove the same, to the extent as if it was the original conveyance. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 9; Code, s. 64; Rev., s. 336; C.S., s. 375.)
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North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records
§ 98-1 - Copy of destroyed record as evidence; may be recorded.
§ 98-2 - Originals may be again recorded.
§ 98-3 - Establishing boundaries and interest, where conveyance and copy lost.
§ 98-4 - Copy of lost will may be probated.
§ 98-5 - Copy of lost will as evidence; letters to issue.
§ 98-6 - Establishing contents of will, where original and copy destroyed.
§ 98-7 - Perpetuating destroyed judgments and proceedings.
§ 98-8 - Color of title under destroyed instrument.
§ 98-9 - Action on destroyed bond.
§ 98-10 - Destroyed witness tickets; duplicates may be filed.
§ 98-11 - Replacing lost official conveyances.
§ 98-12 - Court records as proof of destroyed instruments set out therein.
§ 98-13 - Copies contained in court records may be recorded.
§ 98-14 - Rules for petitions and motions.
§ 98-15 - Records allowed under this Chapter to have effect of original records.
§ 98-17 - Conveyances reciting court records prima facie evidence thereof.
§ 98-18 - Court records and conveyances to which Chapter extends.