Title 1, General Provisions

Any instrument affecting a lien upon, title to, or interest in, real estate executed and acknowledged in good faith by the treasurer or cashier in behalf of any loan, trust, or banking corporation, or by the regional treasurer of any United States corporation, prior to July 1, 19…

If any instrument affecting real or personal property in this state heretofore executed by or to any person purporting to act in a representative capacity fails clearly to identify the beneficiary and the nature of the trust, the person by or to whom such instrument was executed,…

Any assignment of a mortgage upon property within this state heretofore made by any executor or administrator appointed in any other state or foreign country on the estate of any person where no executor or administrator had been appointed in this state, if such executor or admin…

Any deed to real property in this state made by the duly appointed and qualified receiver of a foreign corporation prior to January 1, 1943, under order of a foreign court having jurisdiction of such corporation, hereby is declared valid and sufficient. In any such case there sha…

Any corporation organized otherwise than under the laws of this state, having acquired, or attempted to acquire, or to convey legal title by deed or lease to any real property in this state, before complying with the provisions of North Dakota law governing foreign corporations, …

Any deed, judgment, decree, mortgage foreclosure, or other transfer, including a sheriff's certificate of sale, affecting the title to real property in this state, in good faith taken, made, or rendered in favor or in the name of a deceased person, or in the name of the estate of…

If a sheriff's certificate of sale of any real property in this state, made in favor or in the name of a deceased person, or of the estate of a deceased person, or the executor or administrator thereof, prior to January 1, 1943, on which a sheriff's deed has not been issued, it i…

In any case where a married man or woman, prior to January 1, 1943, conveyed real property which may have been the homestead of the husband, or the wife, or the family, by a deed duly signed and acknowledged by the husband or wife only, but not signed by the other, and the husban…

The record in the office of the recorder, prior to January 1, 1943, of a deed, mortgage, or assignment of mortgage which has failed to contain the post-office address of the grantee, mortgagee, or assignee named in such deed, mortgage, or assignment as provided by section 35-03-0…

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 47-10-21 and 47-10-22: 1. All reservations of minerals or mineral deposits other than coal, contained in all deeds and transfers of real property in this state; and 2. All conveyances and transfers of minerals or mineral deposits other t…

All confirmations, approvals, and adoptions of oil and gas leases made by any board of county commissioners prior to July 1, 1941, and which comply substantially with the terms and conditions of chapter 38-09, are declared valid.

A lease made for any of the purposes mentioned in section 30-13-05 and which has been executed and delivered under the authority of an order of a county court having jurisdiction, or which was approved by such court prior to March 7, 1941, is declared legal and valid.

All oil and gas leases executed prior to July 1, 1941, by the governing body of a township, city, school district, or park district, covering lands under its control, are declared to be valid.

Any record of a mineral deed actually made in the office of the recorder of any county of this state prior to March 7, 1941, is declared to be valid and fully operative as constructive notice though it was not certified for transfer by the county auditor as provided by section 11…

Every conveyance of real estate made prior to January 1, 1943, by an executor or administrator of an estate pursuant to a decree of specific performance rendered by any county court of this state, as provided by section 30-13-12, without the entry of a subsequent order or judgmen…

Any transfer of any legal or equitable title to or interest in any real property in the state of North Dakota made prior to March 5, 1943, by any person, firm, or corporation to himself, herself, or such firm or corporation and any other person or persons, firm or firms, corporat…

Any and all acknowledgments taken before March 5, 1943, and subsequent to September 16, 1940, in substantial compliance with the provisions of sections 47-19-17 and 47-19-31 are hereby declared legal and valid for all purposes and to the same extent as acknowledgments taken subse…

The record in the office of the recorder, prior to January 1, 1955, of a deed, mortgage, or assignment of mortgage which has failed to contain the post-office address of the grantee, mortgagee, or assignee named in such deed, mortgage, or assignment as provided by section 35-03-0…