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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 1 - Creation and Limitation of Estates; Their Qualities
§ 55-12. Fee tail converted into fee simple
Universal Citation: VA Code § 55-12 (2018)
Every estate in lands so limited that, as the law was on October 7, 1776, such estate would have been an estate tail shall be deemed an estate in fee simple; and every limitation upon such an estate shall be held valid, if the same would be valid when limited upon an estate in fee simple created by technical language.
Code 1919, ยง 5150.
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