2015 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
§ 55-39. Rights of wife, etc., not affected by husband's acts only

No conveyance or other act suffered or done by the husband only of any land which is the inheritance of his wife shall be or make any discontinuance thereof, or be prejudicial to the wife or her heirs, or to any having right or title to the same by her death, but they may respectively enter into such land, according to their right and title therein, as if no such act had been done.

Code 1919, § 5442.