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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 18 - Trespasses; Fences
§ 55-317. Obligation to provide division fences
Universal Citation: VA Code § 55-317 (2018)
Adjoining landowners shall build and maintain, at their joint and equal expense, division fences between their lands, unless one of them shall choose to let his land lie open or unless they shall otherwise agree between themselves.
Code 1950, ยง 8-887; 1970, c. 713; 1977, c. 624; 2005, c. 873.
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