NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 951

HOUSE BILL 1173

AN ACT VALIDATING CERTAIN DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS IMPROPERLY ACKNOWLEDGED BEFORE NOTARIES PUBLIC PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1945.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Where any person has taken an acknowledgment as a notary public of a person acting through another by virtue of the execution of a power of attorney and by said person acting in his individual capacity and said notary public has failed to include within his certificate the acknowledgment of said person in his capacity as attorney in fact, and such acknowledgment has been otherwise duly probated and recorded, then such acknowledgment is hereby declared to be sufficient and valid: Provided, this Act shall apply only to those deeds and other instruments acknowledged prior to January 1, 1945.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification but shall not affect pending litigation.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1969.