North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 28A. Administration of Decedents' Estates § 28A-2A-18. Probates validated where proof taken by commissioner or another clerk

In all cases of the probate of any will made prior to March 8, 1899, in common form before any clerk of the superior courts of this State, where the testimony of the subscribing witnesses has been taken in the State or out of it by any commissioner appointed by said clerk or taken by any other clerk of the superior court in any other county of this State, and the will admitted to probate upon such testimony, the proceedings are validated.