NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1101

SENATE BILL 658

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW USE OF VERIFIED PLEADINGS IN LIEU OF AFFIDAVITS IN DEFAULT JUDGMENT PROCEEDINGS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. Chapter 1A-1, Rule 55(b)(1) is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first paragraph a new sentence to read as follows:

"A verified pleading may be used in lieu of an affidavit when the pleading contains information sufficient to determine or compute the sum certain."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.