§ 47-88. Registration without formal order validated. - North Carolina Statutes

§47‑88.  Registration without formal order validated.

In all cases where theacknowledgment, privy examination of a married woman, or other proof of theexecution of any deed, mortgage or other instrument, authorized to beregistered, has been taken before a commissioner in another state appointed bythe probate judge of any county of this State, under the provisions of section20 of Chapter 35 of Battle's Revisal, during the time said Chapter remained inforce and effect, and such commissioner has certified to such acknowledgment,privy examination or other proof, and has returned such deed, mortgage or otherinstrument to said probate judge, with his certificate endorsed thereon, andsuch deed, mortgage or other instrument, together with such certificate, hasbeen registered, without any adjudication or order of registration by suchprobate judge, the probate and registration of any and every such deed shallbe, and hereby are, to all intents and purposes validated. (1921,c. 19, ss. 2, 4; C.S., s. 3366(c).)