2022 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 42 - Landlord and Tenant
Article 3 - Summary Ejectment.
§ 42-36 - Damages to tenant for dispossession, if proceedings quashed, etc.

Universal Citation:
NC Gen Stat § 42-36 (2022)
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42-36. Damages to tenant for dispossession, if proceedings quashed, etc.

If, by order of the magistrate, the plaintiff is put in possession, and the proceedings shall afterwards be quashed or reversed, the defendant may recover damages of the plaintiff for his removal. (1868-9, c. 156, s. 30; Code, s. 1776; Rev., s. 2010; C.S., s. 2375; 1971, c. 533, s. 10.)


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