NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1008

HOUSE BILL 1203

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 39-13.1 REGARDING THE VALIDATION OF CERTAIN DEEDS, ETC., EXECUTED BY MARRIED WOMEN WITHOUT PRIVATE EXAMINATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 39-13.1 is hereby amended by designating the present paragraph as Subsection (a) and by adding Subsection (b) as follows:

"(b)      Any deed, contract, conveyance, lease or other instrument executed prior to February 7, 1945, which is in all other respects regular except for the failure to take the private examination of a married woman who is a party to such deed, contract, conveyance, lease or other instrument is hereby validated and confirmed to the same extent as if such private examination had been taken, provided that this Section shall not apply to any instruments now involved in any pending litigation.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon ratification except that this Act shall not affect pending litigation.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1969.