NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 502

HOUSE BILL 684

 

 

AN ACT REQUIRING THAT ALL DEEDS, DEEDS OF TRUST AND MORTGAGES ON REAL ESTATE ACCEPTED FOR PROBATE AND REGISTRATION IN MACON COUNTY SHALL SHOW THEREON THE NAME OF THE DRAFTSMAN AND THE SOURCE OF THE TITLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Clerk of Superior Court of Macon County shall not accept for probate or recordation any deed, deed of trust or mortgage conveying any real estate, executed after July 1, 1961, unless there shall appear on such deed, deed of trust or mortgage the name of the person or firm who drafted such instrument, or unless in some similar manner the draftsman shall be designated thereon following the words "drawn by" on such instrument or cover thereof or in any manner so that the draftsman may be designated, and unless the said instrument shall also contain the book and page reference indicating the instrument by which the grantor acquired title: Provided that such instruments prepared in other counties of North Carolina or in other states or counties for probate or recordation in any of said counties, or such instruments prepared by any party thereto may be accepted for probate or recordation without the name of the draftsman appearing thereon, and without the book and page record of the instrument by which the grantor acquired title; and any such instrument may be probated and recorded without the name of the draftsman appearing, or the record source of title being shown when it shall be established to the satisfaction of the Clerk of Superior Court that, after due diligence, the draftsman cannot be determined or is deceased.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of May, 1961.