2006 Code of Virginia § 55-220 - What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornment unnecessary
55-220. What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornmentunnecessary.
In conveyances or devises of rents in fee, with powers of distress andreentry, or either of them, such powers shall pass to the grantee or deviseewithout express words. A grant or devise of a rent, or of a reversion orremainder, shall be good and effectual without attornment of the tenant; butno tenant who, before notice of the grant, shall have paid the rent to thegrantor shall suffer any damage thereby.
(Code 1919, 5514.)
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