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2021 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 8 - Evidence
Article 2 - Grants, Deeds and Wills.
§ 8-21 - Deeds and records thereof lost, presumed to be in due form.
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8-21. Deeds and records thereof lost, presumed to be in due form.
Whenever it is shown in any judicial proceeding that a deed or conveyance of real estate has been lost or destroyed, and that the same had been registered, and that the register's book containing the copy has been destroyed by fire or other accident, so that a copy thereof cannot be had, it shall be presumed and held, unless the contents be shown to have been otherwise, that such deed or conveyance transferred an estate in fee simple, if the grantor was entitled to such an estate at the time of conveyance, and that it was made upon sufficient consideration.
(1854, c. 17; R.C., c. 44, s. 14; Code, s. 1348; Rev., s. 1602; C.S., s. 1766.)
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