58-2513. Attornment of tenant unnecessary; payment of rent. A conveyance of real estate or of any interest therein by a landlord shall be valid without the attornment of the tenant; but the payment of rent by the tenant to the grantor at any time before notice of sale given to said tenant shall be good against the grantee.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 55, § 13; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 67-513.