NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 59

HOUSE BILL 225

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE CURATIVE LEGISLATION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENTS IN REAL PROPERTY MATTERS ENTERED BY THE CLERK OF COURT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 1-217.2 is hereby amended by deleting the numbers "1956" from line one thereof and inserting "1967" so that G.S. 1-217.2 shall read as follows:

"§ 1-217.2.  Judgments by default to remove cloud from title to real estate validated. — In every case where prior to the 1st day of April, 1967, a judgment by default final has been entered by the clerk of superior court of any county in this State in an action to remove cloud from title to real estate, the said judgment is hereby to all intents and purposes validated, and said judgment is hereby declared to be regular, proper and a lawful judgment in all respects according to the provisions of same."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification but shall not affect pending litigation.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of March, 1971.