2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 156 - Drainage.
§ 156-44. Shares of stock annexed to land.
Article 4.
Rights and Liabilities in the Corporation.
§ 156‑44. Shares of stock annexed to land.
The ownership of the shares of stock is indissolubly annexed to the ownership of the pieces of land adjudged to be benefited by the improvement; and such shares, or a part thereof proportionate to the area of such land that may descend or be conveyed for any longer time than three years, shall, upon such descent or conveyance, descend and pass with the land, even although such shares be not mentioned in the deed of conveyance, and although their transfer be forbidden by such deed so that every owner of such land in possession, except a tenant for a term of years, not exceeding three, and every owner in reversion or remainder after a term not exceeding three years, shall, during his ownership, be entitled to all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the obligations and burdens of a corporator. Every attempted sale of shares otherwise than as annexed to the land shall be void. (1868‑9, c. 164, s. 8; Code, s. 1317; Rev., s. 4002; C.S., s. 5302.)
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