N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-2A-4

Current through Session Law 2024-56
Section 28A-2A-4 - Clerk shall compel production of will

Every clerk of the superior court having jurisdiction, on application by affidavit setting forth the facts, shall, by summons, compel any person in the State, having in possession the last will of any decedent, to exhibit the same in his court for probate; and whoever being duly summoned refuses, in contempt of the court, to produce such will, or (the same having been parted with by him) refuses to inform the court on oath where such will is, or in what manner he has disposed of it, shall, by order of the clerk of the superior court, be committed to the jail of the county, there to remain without bail till such will be produced or accounted for, and due submission made for the contempt.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-2A-4

Renumbered from § 31-15 by 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 344,s. 3, eff. 1/1/2012, and amended by 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 344,s. 4, eff. 1/1/2012.
C.C.P., s. 442; Code, s. 2154; Rev., s. 3124; C.S., s. 4141.