2010 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES.
Chapter 18 - Trespasses; Fences (55-298 thru 55-335)
55-321 - Requirements for agreement to bind successors in title; subsequent owners.

§ 55-321. Requirements for agreement to bind successors in title; subsequent owners.

No agreement made between adjoining landowners, with respect to the construction or maintenance of the division fence between their lands, shall be binding on their successors in title, unless it be in writing and specifically so state, and be recorded in the deed book in the clerk's office of the county in which the land is located, and properly indexed as deeds are required by law to be indexed.

If any notice, as required by § 55-318 or § 55-319 is recorded in the deed book in the clerk's office of the county in which the land is located and is properly indexed as deeds are required by law to be indexed, then any subsequent owners of such land shall be liable for any sum which may be due pursuant to § 55-320.

(Code 1950, § 8-891; 1977, c. 624; 1985, c. 486.)

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