§47‑59. Before clerks of inferior courts.
All probates and orders ofregistration made by and taken before any clerk of any inferior or criminalcourt prior to the twentieth day of February, 1885, and valid in form andsubstance, shall be valid and effectual, and all deeds, mortgages or otherinstruments requiring registration, registered upon such probate and order ofregistration, shall be valid. This section shall apply only to the counties ofAshe, Beaufort, Bertie, Buncombe, Cumberland, Duplin, Edgecombe, Granville,Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Iredell, Lenoir, Martin, Mecklenburg, New Hanover,Northampton, Robeson and Wayne. This section applies to probates and privateexaminations taken before the clerks of the criminal court of Buncombe prior toFebruary second, 1893. (1885, cc. 105, 108; 1889, cc. 143, 463; Rev., ss.1020, 1021; C.S., s. 3340.)