West Virginia CHAPTER 37. — REAL PROPERTY.
- 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 — Repealed.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. Repealed.
- ARTICLE 2A. — PUBLIC LAND CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.
- §§37-2A-1 to 37-2A-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 — Repealed.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.
- §§37-3-1 to 37-3-39. — Repealed.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.
- §37-11-4. — Validation of records failing to comply with §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.
- §§37-14-1 to 37-14-45. — 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.