N.C. Gen. Stat. § 41-8
Collateral warranties abolished; warranties by life tenants deemed covenants.
§ 41-8. Collateral warranties abolished; warranties by life tenants deemed covenants.
All collateral warranties are abolished; and all warranties made by any tenant for life of lands, tenements or hereditaments, the same descending or coming to any person in reversion or remainder, shall be void; and all such warranties, as aforesaid, shall be deemed covenants only, and bind the covenanter in like manner as other obligations.