§ 1-04-06 — Instruments affecting real or personal property by representative legalized

If any instrument affecting real or personal property in this state heretofore executed by or to
any person purporting to act in a representative capacity fails clearly to identify the beneficiary
and the nature of the trust, the person by or to whom such instrument was executed, within six
months after the taking effect of this code, may file and have recorded in the office of the
recorder of the county in which such instrument was recorded, a statement in writing, referring
to any such instrument by date, name of the parties, when and where recorded, the nature of
the instrument, a description of the property affected thereby, and fully and clearly by name
identifying the beneficiary and the nature of the trust. Such statement must be acknowledged so
as to entitle the same to record.