North Carolina § 1-239 - 1. Records of cancellation, assignment, etc., of judgments recorded by photographic process.

§ 1-239. 1. Records of cancellation, assignment, etc., of judgments recorded by photographic process.

In all cases where the governing authority of any county has caused the instruments or documents filed for record in the office of the clerk of the superior court of such county to be recorded by any system involving the use of microfilm or by the use of any microphotographic system or by any system of photographic recording, it shall be lawful for the clerk of the superior court to keep a record or docket book for the purpose of entering on same payment or payments, credit or satisfaction, assignments or releases in whole or in part of any judgment which has heretofore been recorded by any photographic process above mentioned. For this purpose, the form of such docket or record book shall be substantially as follows: "__________________ Superior Court Cancellation, Assignment, Transfer or Release of Judgments, etc. I (We) ______________ do hereby certify that that certain judgment docketed in Judgment Docket ____________, at page ________, filed ________ day of ____________, ________, Case No. ________, wherein ______________ is (are) Plaintiff(s) and ______________ is (are) Defendant(s) has been fully satisfied, released and discharged together with all costs, and interest, ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Signed in the presence of _____________________________________________ ________________________ ______________________________________________ Assistant-Deputy Clerk of _____________________________________________ the Superior Court of ____________ County" Any entries of payment, credits or satisfaction made on such record or docket book, in substantially the form above mentioned, shall be good and valid payments, credits or satisfactions in all respects as if the same had been duly entered on the original judgment docket before the recording of same by the photographic process or system above mentioned. The clerk of the superior court shall have the authority to forward certificates to the clerk of the superior court of each county to whom a transcript of said judgment has been sent to the same extent and for all the purposes provided in G.S. 1-239 , and all payments, credits or satisfactions entered in said docket book or record shall be valid to the same extent as if the same had been entered in the regular judgment docket in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 1-239 . History (1951, c. 774; 1999-456, s. 59.)