N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8-8: Certified copies of grants and abstracts recorded.

Duly certified copies of such grants and of such memoranda and abstracts of grants may be recorded in the county where the lands therein described are situated, and the records thereof in such counties, or certified copies thereof, shall likewise be competent evidence for the purpose of showing title from the State of North Carolina to the grantee or grantees named and for the lands described therein. (1915, c. 249, s. 2; C.S., s. 1753.)