2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 37. REAL PROPERTY.

ARTICLE 1. LANDS OF INFANTS, INSANE PERSONS, OR CONVICTS, AND LANDS HELD IN TRUST. 

• §37-1-1 Renewal of lease by or to persons under disability.
• §37-1-2 Sale, lease or mortgage; bill; parties; definition.
• §37-1-3 Guardian ad litem.
• §37-1-4 Depositions.
• §37-1-5 Decree.
• §37-1-6 Who not to be purchaser.
• §37-1-7 Investment of proceeds.
• §37-1-8 Joinder of spouse, or sale free of dower.
• §37-1-9 Release of dower under order of court; conveyance without joinder of spouse.
• §37-1-10 Proceeds of sale to descend as lands.
• §37-1-11 Summary proceedings for sale, lease or mortgage; petition; notice.
• §37-1-11a Jurisdiction of court in proceedings under article; process; investment not required if funds unavailable.
• §37-1-12 Guardian ad litem in summary proceeding.
• §37-1-13 Order; sale.
• §37-1-14 Bond for proceeds.
• §37-1-15 Application of proceeds; costs.
• §37-1-16 Confirmation; conveyance.
• §37-1-17 Validation of certain sales.

ARTICLE 2. ESCHEATS. 

• §37-2-1 Repealed
• §37-2-2 Escheat of equitable interests.
• §37-2-3 Tenants of escheated land.
• §37-2-4 Escheator.
• §37-2-5 List of land by escheator.

ARTICLE 2A. PUBLIC LAND CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA. 

• §16737-2A-1to37-2A-9 Repealed

ARTICLE 2B. REDEMPTION OF, AND CLARIFICATION OF TITLE TO, REAL PROPERTY FORMERLY HELD FOR RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND IMPROPERLY EXEMPTED FROM TAXES. 

• §37-2B-1 Compromise of state's claims.
• §37-2B-2 Auditor's receipt for redemption; receipt as release and discharge from taxes; recordation.
• §37-2B-3 Entry and back-taxing of property after redemption.
• §37-2B-4 Entry of property acquired after year 1942.
• §37-2B-5 Reports to auditor by assessor; when assessor to reenter property.
• §37-2B-6 Protection of purchasers of exempted property who have held for five years or more; right of redemption.
• §37-2B-7 Protection of constitutional transferees; priority of redemption.
• §37-2B-8 Purpose of article; power and jurisdiction of courts; state as party to suits.
• §37-2B-9 Auditor's power to provide for redemption of such property as not covered by other statutes.

ARTICLE 3. SALE OF LAND FOR BENEFIT OF SCHOOL FUND. 

• §16737-3-1to37-3-39 Repealed

ARTICLE 4. PARTITION. 

• §37-4-1 Who entitled to partition; jurisdiction; state as party plaintiff.
• §37-4-2 Allotting shares together.
• §37-4-3 Allotment or sale; procedure for allotment.
• §37-4-4 Determination of liens.
• §37-4-5 Sale of land free of dower.
• §37-4-6 Unknown owners.
• §37-4-7 Lessees.
• §37-4-8 Record; effect.

ARTICLE 5. ADJOINING OWNERS. 

• §37-5-1 Excavations near boundaries.
• §37-5-2 Survey of mine.
• §37-5-3 Prosecution under preceding sections.

ARTICLE 6. LANDLORD AND TENANT. 

• §37-6-1 Rights of parties on transfer of land or reversion.
• §37-6-2 Rights of lessee against transferee of reversion.
• §37-6-3 Effect of transfer of rent, reversion or remainder.
• §37-6-4 Attornment to stranger void.
• §37-6-5 Notice to terminate tenancy.
• §37-6-6 Desertion of leased property; entry; recovery of rent, disposition of abandoned personal property; notice.
• §37-6-7 Reletting by landlord.
• §37-6-8 Tenant's right to recover possession.
• §37-6-9 Recovery of rent by distress or action; evidence; interest.
• §37-6-10 Who may recover rent.
• §37-6-11 Persons liable for rent.
• §37-6-12 Distress for rent; time and place; warrant.
• §37-6-13 Property subject to distress.
• §37-6-14 Forcible entry by officer.
• §37-6-15 Unlawful act after making distress; damages.
• §37-6-16 Distress or attachment when rent not payable in money.
• §37-6-17 Attachment for rent.
• §37-6-18 Removal of goods by third party having lien.
• §37-6-19 Right of reentry; ejectment; unlawful detainer; judgment by default.
• §37-6-20 Relief against forfeiture.
• §37-6-21 Rights of mortgagee or trustee.
• §37-6-22 Injunction against ejectment or unlawful detainer.
• §37-6-23 Effect of payment of rent or relief in equity.
• §37-6-24 Record of reentry; publication of certificate.
• §37-6-25 Fees of clerk.
• §37-6-26 Payment of rent and reinstatement after reentry.
• §37-6-27 Defects in entry proceedings.
• §37-6-28 Destruction of buildings; abatement of rent.
• §37-6-29 Land taken by eminent domain; termination or reduction of rent.
• §37-6-30 Landlord to deliver premises; duty to maintain premises in fit and habitable condition.

ARTICLE 7. WASTE. 

• §37-7-1 Waste by tenant in possession.
• §37-7-2 Waste by cotenant.
• §37-7-3 Guardians.
• §37-7-4 Actions; damages.
• §37-7-5 Waste pending suit.

ARTICLE 8. EMBLEMENTS. 

• §37-8-1 Lessee of tenant or owner of an uncertain interest.
• §37-8-2 Land employed in farming or planting.
• §37-8-3 At common law.

ARTICLE 9. APPORTIONMENT OF RENT. 

• §37-9-1 Apportionment of rent on determination of estate.
• §37-9-2 Remedies for recovery.
• §37-9-3 Scope of article.
• §37-9-4 Apportionment on purchase of rent or part of land.

ARTICLE 10. LAND RECORDS PROCURED FROM VIRGINIA. 

• §37-10-1 Custody of records procured from Virginia.
• §37-10-2 Charge of such records by auditor.
• §37-10-3 Copies from records as evidence; fees.
• §37-10-4 Fees.

ARTICLE 11. CURATIVE PROVISIONS RESPECTING DEEDS AND OTHER WRITINGS AND THE RECORDATION THEREOF. 

• §37-11-1 Informality in deeds and other instruments.
• §37-11-2 Validation of instruments, acknowledgments and records.
• §37-11-3 Validation of acknowledgments defective in other respects.
• §;9, chapter 73, code 1868.
• §37-11-5 Presumption of jurisdiction in cases of judicial sales.
• §37-11-6 Presumption of authority of commissioners and certain other officers in certain cases.

ARTICLE 12. SURVEYORS. 

• §37-12-1 Survey by magnetic meridian; variations; measurement.
• §37-12-2 Execution of orders of survey.

ARTICLE 13. REMOVAL, TRANSFER AND DISPOSITION OF REMAINS IN GRAVES LOCATED UPON PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS. 

• §37-13-1 Jurisdiction to permit and order removal, etc.
• §37-13-1a Improvement, construction or development upon privately owned lands containing graves.
• §37-13-2 Action; contents of petition.
• §37-13-3 Parties; notice.
• §37-13-4 Hearing; discretion in granting or refusing relief; order.
• §37-13-5 Procedure upon removal.
• §37-13-6 Costs.
• §37-13-7 Remedy herein provided cumulative.

ARTICLE 13A. GRAVES LOCATED UPON PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS. 

• §37-13A-1 Access of certain persons to cemeteries and graves located on private land.
• §37-13A-2 Purposes for which access is allowed.
• §37-13A-3 Conduct of persons accessing cemeteries or grave sites; persons liable for damage.
• §37-13A-4 Limiting the use of motor vehicles on private lands.
• §37-13A-5 Cause of action for injunctive relief.
• §37-13A-6 Application of article.

ARTICLE 14. THE REAL ESTATE APPRAISER LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION ACT. 

• §16737-14-1to37-14-45 Repealed

ARTICLE 15. HOUSE TRAILERS, MOBILE HOMES, MANUFACTURED HOMES AND MODULAR HOMES. 

• §37-15-1 Purpose and applicability.
• §37-15-2 Definitions.
• §37-15-3 Written agreement required.
• §37-15-3a Rules and regulations.
• §37-15-4 Liability of secured party taking possession of an abandoned factory-built home.
• §37-15-5 Demands and charges prohibited; access by tenant's invitee; purchases by factory-built home owner not restricted; exception; conditions of occupancy.
• §37-15-6 Termination of tenancy.
• §37-15-6a Termination of tenancy of more than twenty-five tenants.
• §37-15-7 Retaliatory conduct prohibited.
• §37-15-8 Effect on taxation.