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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 1 - Creation and Limitation of Estates
Article 1. Creation and Transfer of Estates
- § 55.1-100. (Effective October 1, 2019) Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
- § 55.1-101. (Effective October 1, 2019) When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
- § 55.1-102. (Effective October 1, 2019) When gift of personal property invalid
- § 55.1-103. (Effective October 1, 2019) Suicide or attainder of felony
- § 55.1-104. (Effective October 1, 2019) Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
- § 55.1-105. (Effective October 1, 2019) Same estates may be created by deed as by will
- § 55.1-106. (Effective October 1, 2019) Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
- § 55.1-107. (Effective October 1, 2019) Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman
- § 55.1-108. (Effective October 1, 2019) Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another
- § 55.1-109. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty
- § 55.1-110. (Effective October 1, 2019) Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation
- § 55.1-111. (Effective October 1, 2019) Fee tail converted into fee simple
- § 55.1-112. (Effective October 1, 2019) Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished
- § 55.1-113. (Effective October 1, 2019) Doctrine of worthier title abolished
- § 55.1-114. (Effective October 1, 2019) When contingent remainder not to fail
- § 55.1-115. (Effective October 1, 2019) When remainders not defeated
- § 55.1-116. (Effective October 1, 2019) in what conveyances possession transferred to the use
- § 55.1-117. (Effective October 1, 2019) Land trusts not to fail because no beneficiaries are specified by name and no duties laid on trustee; when interest of beneficiaries deemed personal property; liens
- § 55.1-118. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deed of release effectual
- § 55.1-119. (Effective October 1, 2019) When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
- § 55.1-120. (Effective October 1, 2019) Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
- § 55.1-121. (Effective October 1, 2019) Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
- § 55.1-122. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
- § 55.1-123. (Effective October 1, 2019) Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title
Article 2. Rule Against Perpetuities
- § 55.1-124. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities
- § 55.1-125. (Effective October 1, 2019) When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created
- § 55.1-126. (Effective October 1, 2019) Reformation
- § 55.1-127. (Effective October 1, 2019) Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities
- § 55.1-128. (Effective October 1, 2019) Prospective application
- § 55.1-129. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniformity of application and construction
- § 55.1-130. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certain limitations construed
- § 55.1-131. (Effective October 1, 2019) Employee trusts
- § 55.1-132. (Effective October 1, 2019) Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities
- § 55.1-133. (Effective October 1, 2019) Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers
Article 3. Joint Ownership of Real or Personal Property
- § 55.1-134. (Effective October 1, 2019) Survivorship between joint tenants abolished
- § 55.1-135. (Effective October 1, 2019) Joint ownership in real and personal property
- § 55.1-136. (Effective October 1, 2019) Tenants by the entirety in real and personal property; certain trusts
Article 4. Virginia Solar Easements Act
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