Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(d). If a party wishes to challenge the clerk’s findings pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(d), the party must appeal to the judge of the district or superior court having jurisdiction within 10 days. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(d)(1). The trial court’s review of the clerk’s findings is de novo, id., and the trial court is limited on appeal to determining whether the six criteria of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(d) have been satisfied, In re Foreclosure of Godwin, 121 N.C. App. 703, 704, 468 S.E.2d 811, 812 (1996). The trial court is prohibited from reviewing any issue or argument that was not raised before the clerk in connection with the clerk’s N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(d) analysis. See In re David A. Simpson, P.C., _ N.C. App. _, _, 711 S.E.2d 165, 170 (2011) ; Mosler v. Druid Hills Land Co., 199 N.C. App.
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that trial court did not err
B. holding that the trial court did not err in refusing to consider debtors claim of rescission as an equitable defense to the foreclosure action where that defense was not raised before the clerk
C. holding that the trial court did not err in its refusal to consider the borrowers defense of merger on appeal since the defense was outside the subject matter jurisdiction of the trial court
D. holding that defendants failure to assert the defense in any pretrial motions did not waive defendants limitations defense because the assertion of a limitations defense in the answer preserved defendants right to raise the defense both during the first trial and before the second
E. holding that the government did not waive an affirmative defense not pleaded in the answer because it raised the defense at a pragmatically sufficient time by listing the defense in the joint pretrial order
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.