North Carolina § 42-6 - Rents, annuities, etc., apportioned, where right to payment terminated by death.
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§ 42-6. Rents, annuities, etc., apportioned, where right to payment terminated by death.
In all cases where rents, rent charges, annuities, pensions, dividends, or any other payments of any description, are made payable at fixed periods to successive owners under any instrument, or by any will, and where the right of any owner to receive payment is terminable by a death or other uncertain event, and where such right so terminates during a period in which a payment is growing due, the payment becoming due next after such terminating event shall be apportioned among the successive owners according to the parts of such periods elapsing before and after the terminating event. History (1868-9, c. 156, s. 7; Code, s. 1748; Rev., s. 1988; C.S., s. 2346.)
Source: official North Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 42-6 ("Rents, annuities, etc., apportioned, where right to payment terminated by death.") is part of the North Carolina General Statutes, the codified statutory law of North Carolina. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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