§ 39-11. Certain conveyances not affected by fraud if acknowledgment or privy examination regular. - North Carolina Statutes

§39‑11.  Certain conveyances not affected by fraud if acknowledgment orprivy examination regular.

No deed conveying lands norany instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, executed by husbandand wife since the eleventh of March, 1889, if the acknowledgment or privateexamination of the wife is thereto certified as prescribed by law, shall beinvalid because its execution or acknowledgment was procured by fraud, duressor undue influence, unless it is shown that the grantee or person to whom theinstrument was made participated in the  fraud, duress or undue influence, orhad notice thereof before the delivery of the instrument. Where suchparticipation or notice is shown, an innocent purchaser for value under thegrantee or person to whom the instrument was made shall not be affected by suchfraud, duress or undue influence. (1889, c. 389; 1899, c. 235,s. 10; Rev., s. 956; C.S., s. 1001; 1945, c. 73, s. 7.)