§ 31-20. Wills filed in clerk's office. - North Carolina Statutes

§31‑20.  Wills filed in clerk's office.

All original wills shallremain in the clerk's office, among the records of the court where the sameshall be proved, and to such wills any person may have access, as to the otherrecords. If said will contains a devise of real estate, outside said countywhere said will is probated, then a copy of the said will, together with theprobate of the same, certified under the hand and seal of the clerk of thesuperior court of said county may be recorded in the book of wills and filed inthe office of the clerk of the superior court of any county in the State inwhich said land is situated with the same effect as to passing the title tosaid real estate as if said will had originally been probated and filed in saidcounty and the clerk of the superior court of said last‑mentioned countyhad had jurisdiction to probate the same. (1777, c. 115, s. 59; R.C.,c. 119, s. 19; Code, s. 2173; Rev., s. 3129; 1921, c. 108, s. 1; C.S., s.4146.)