The Little Engine that Could: Article 27A, G.S. Chapter 1
Published for On the Civil Side on April 21, 2017.
In my last post, I wrote about the office of the clerk of superior court and the clerk’s judicial authority. I provided a basic framework for this authority and noted that that the clerk’s non-criminal authority falls into three main categories:
- estates and trusts,
- civil, and
- special proceedings.
Some Background on Article 27A of G.S. Chapter 1
I did not come up with these categories on my own. In fact, there are three statutes located in Article 27A of G.S. Chapter 1 that clearly define these as the primary categories of the clerk’s judicial authority. They are G.S. 1-301.1 (civil actions), G.S. 1-301.2 (special proceedings), and G.S. 1-301.3 (estates and trusts).
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