58-2216. Same; certificate, contents. The certificate endorsed upon the deed thus proved must state: First. The title of the court or officer taking the proof. Second. That it was satisfactorily proved that the grantor was dead, or that, for some other cause, the grantor's attendance could not be procured, in order to make the acknowledgment, or that, having appeared, he or she refused to acknowledge the deed. Third. The names of the witnesses by whom the proof was made, and that it was proved by them that the instrument was executed by the person whose name is thereunto subscribed as a party.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 22, § 14; October 31; R.S. 1923, 67-216.