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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 1 - Creation and Limitation of Estates; Their Qualities
- § 55-1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Aliens may acquire, hold and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
- § 55-2. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
- § 55-3. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When gift of goods or chattels invalid
- § 55-4. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Suicide or attainder
- § 55-5. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
- § 55-6. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Same estates may be created by deed as by will
- § 55-7. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
- § 55-7.1. Repealed
- § 55-8. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman, etc.
- § 55-9. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another
- § 55-10. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Deed good for grantor's right; operation of warranty
- § 55-11. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Grant, etc., without words of limitation
- § 55-12. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Fee tail converted into fee simple
- § 55-12.1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities
- § 55-12.2. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created
- § 55-12.3. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Reformation
- § 55-12.4. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities
- § 55-12.5. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Prospective application
- § 55-12.6. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Uniformity of application and construction
- § 55-13. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Certain limitations construed
- § 55-13.1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Employee trusts
- § 55-13.2. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities
- § 55-13.3. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers
- § 55-14. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished
- § 55-14.1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Doctrine of worthier title abolished
- § 55-15. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When contingent remainder not to fail
- § 55-16. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When remainders not defeated
- § 55-17. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) in what conveyances possession transferred to the use
- § 55-17.1. (Repealed 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
- § 55-18. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Deed of release effectual
- § 55-19. Repealed
- § 55-19.1. Repealed
- § 55-19.2. Repealed
- § 55-19.3. Repealed
- § 55-19.5. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Provision in certain trust void
- § 55-20. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Survivorship between joint tenants abolished
- § 55-20.1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Joint ownership in real and personal property
- § 55-20.2. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Tenants by the entireties in real and personal property; certain trusts
- § 55-21. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Exceptions to § 55-20
- § 55-22. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
- § 55-23. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
- § 55-24. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
- § 55-25. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
- § 55-25.1. Repealed
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