329, 293 S.E.2d 607, 612 (1982). The rules of Civil Procedure set forth in chapter 1A are not to be superimposed upon these cases, but nor should they be ignored. Id. Thus, because the procedure set forth in the termination of parental rights provisions requires a verified petition, and verification is not defined in chapter 7A, the requirements for verification established in chapter 1A, Rule 11(b) should determine whether the pleading has been properly verified. The petitions in the present case were signed and notarized, the notarization reading “[s]worn and subscribed to before me this the 8th day of October, 1990.” Our Supreme Court long ago established that such notarization is insufficient to constitute verification. See Martin v. Martin, 130 N.C. 27, 28, 40 S.E. 822, 822 (1902) (<HOLDING>). Thus, the petitions requesting the
holding that in the absence of a prior indictment probable cause for arrest is determined by the facts in the sworn complaint holding that in a suit on a sworn account the petition with an attached sworn account and verified affidavit of the sworn account was a liquidated claim proved by written instruments holding that the phrase sworn and subscribed to is defective as a verification holding jeopardy attaches when jury is empanelled and sworn holding that a batson challenge is not timely if the jury has been sworn and the venire dismissed and observing that sjeveral jurisdictions have closely analyzed batsons language and concluded that the us supreme court envisioned that a batson challenge must be made before the jury is sworn while citing numerous state decisions barring batson objections after the jury is sworn and the venire is dismissed