12-405. Sale of lot before recording of plat; penalty. If any person sell or offer for sale any lot within any city, town or addition before the map or plat thereof be made out, acknowledged, filed and recorded as aforesaid, such person shall forfeit a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars for every lot which he or she shall sell or offer to sell.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 5; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-405.