NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION
CHAPTER 1101
SENATE BILL 658
AN ACT TO ALLOW USE OF VERIFIED PLEADINGS IN LIEU OF AFFIDAVITS IN DEFAULT JUDGMENT PROCEEDINGS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. Chapter 1A-1, Rule 55(b)(1) is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first paragraph a new sentence to read as follows:
"A verified pleading may be used in lieu of an affidavit when the pleading contains information sufficient to determine or compute the sum certain."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.