2019 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 1 - Creation and Limitation of Estates; Their Qualities
§ 55-2. (Repealed effective October 1, 2019) When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
A. No estate of inheritance or freehold in lands shall be conveyed unless by deed or will, nor shall any voluntary partition of lands by coparceners, having such an estate therein, be made, except by deed; nor shall any right to a conveyance of any such estate or term in land accrue to the donee of the land or those claiming under him, under a gift or promise of gift of the same not in writing, although such gift or promise be followed by possession thereunder and improvement of the land by the donee or those claiming under him.
B. Any lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land, which was entered into before, and which remains in effect as of, February 13, 2019, or which is entered into after February 13, 2019, shall not be invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed.
Code 1919, ยง 5141; 2019, cc. 11, 49.
