{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-7a-219","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-219","heading":"Certain counterclaims; cross claims; third-party claims not permissible.","body":"No counterclaim, cross claim or third-party claim which would make the amount in controversy exceed the jurisdictional amount established by G.S. 7A-210(1) is permissible in a small claim action assigned to a magistrate. No determination of fact or law in an assigned small claim action estops a party thereto in any subsequent action which, except for this section, might have been asserted under the Code of Civil Procedure as a counterclaim in the small claim action. Notwithstanding G.S. 1A-1, Rule 13, failure by a defendant to file a counterclaim in a small claims action assigned to a magistrate, or failure by a defendant to appeal a judgment in a small claims action to district court, shall not bar such claims in a separate action. (1965, c. 310, s. 1; 1973, c. 1267, s. 2; 1979, c. 144, s. 2; 1981, c. 555, s. 2; 1985, c. 329; 1989, c. 311, s. 2; 1993, c. 553, s. 73(b); 2005-423, s. 9.)","path":["Chapter 7A. Judicial Department.","SUBCHAPTER IV. DISTRICT COURT DIVISION OF THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE.","Article 19. Small Claim Actions in District Court."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_7A/GS_7A-219.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:55:27Z","sha256":"4a1c0e9b557a62e6432b894c65f0c95103dd7b854d7eb23fbca7f5e8239ef0e3","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-7a-218","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-7a-220"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}