NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 255

SENATE BILL 237

 

 

AN ACT REQUIRING THAT ALL DEEDS, DEEDS OF TRUST, MORTGAGES, OR OTHER CONVEYANCES CONVEYING REAL ESTATE ACCEPTED FOR PROBATE AND REGISTRATION IN GASTON COUNTY SHALL SHOW THEREON THE SOURCE OF THE TITLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Register of Deeds of Gaston County shall not accept for probate or recordation any deed, deed of trust, mortgage or other instrument conveying any real estate executed after July 1, 1963, unless there shall appear on such deed, deed of trust, mortgage or other instrument the immediate prior source of title indicating the instrument or other source by which the grantor acquired title: Provided that such instruments prepared in other counties of North Carolina or in other states or countries for probate or recordation in Gaston County may be accepted for probate or recordation without the book and page record of the instrument or other source of title by which the grantor acquired title; and any such instrument may be probated and recorded without the record or other source of title being shown when it shall be established to the satisfaction of the register of deeds that, after due diligence, the immediate prior source of title cannot be determined.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of April, 1963.