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2020 Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 3 - Form and Effect of Deeds and Covenants; Liens
Article 1. Form and Effect of Deeds; Easements
- § 55.1-300. Form of a deed
- § 55.1-300.1. Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants
- § 55.1-301. How construed
- § 55.1-302. Construction of generic terms
- § 55.1-303. Appurtenances, etc., included in deed of land
- § 55.1-304. Relocation of easement
- § 55.1-305. Enjoyment of easement
- § 55.1-306. Utility easements
- § 55.1-306.1. Utility easements; expansion of broadband
- § 55.1-307. Public road easements; maintenance and improvements
- § 55.1-308. Private roads; public use; maintenance and improvements
- § 55.1-309. Deeds good between parties
- § 55.1-310. Conveyance of property not owned but subsequently acquired
- § 55.1-311. Vendor's equitable lien abolished
- § 55.1-312. Certain deeds to county real estate validated
- § 55.1-313. Validation of sales, etc., by county courts prior to 1860
- § 55.1-314. Deeds and writings executed for persons in military service, etc., under defective powers
- § 55.1-315. Effect of option; recording
Article 2. Form and Effect of Deeds of Trust; Sales Thereunder; Assignments; Releases
- § 55.1-316. Form of deed of trust to secure debts, etc.
- § 55.1-317. Requirements for trustees
- § 55.1-318. Credit line deed of trust defined; relative priority of credit line deed of trust and other instruments of judgment
- § 55.1-318.1. Effect of amendment to loan document on deed of trust
- § 55.1-319. Priority of residential refinance mortgage over subordinate mortgage
- § 55.1-320. How deed of trust construed; duties, rights, etc., of parties
- § 55.1-321. Notices required before sale by trustee to owners, lienors, etc.; if note lost
- § 55.1-322. Advertisement required before sale by trustee
- § 55.1-323. Contents of advertisements of sale
- § 55.1-324. Powers and duties of trustee in event of sale under or satisfaction of deed of trust
- § 55.1-325. Meaning of phrases that may be included in deed of trust
- § 55.1-326. Evidences of indebtedness placed on equal footing
- § 55.1-327. Sales under deeds of trust that contain no maturity date or provision authorizing sale
- § 55.1-328. Validation of conveyances of real property under trust instrument not authorizing sale
- § 55.1-329. Permissible form for notice of sale under deed of trust
- § 55.1-330. Construction of deeds requiring notice by advertisement in newspaper
- § 55.1-331. Disposition of surplus from trustee's sale after death of grantor
- § 55.1-332. Title to real estate sold not affected by nonlisting of secured notes for taxation
- § 55.1-333. Validation of certain sales made under deeds of trust
- § 55.1-334. Validation of certain sales made under deeds of trust prior to October 1, 1977
- § 55.1-335. Validation of other sales under deeds of trust
- § 55.1-336. Protection of assignees or transferees of debts secured by real estate; form of certificate of transfer
- § 55.1-337. Required notice of foreclosure or repossession of manufactured home
- § 55.1-338. Release to person dead inures to successors
- § 55.1-339. (Effective until January 1, 2022) Release of deed of trust or other lien
- § 55.1-339. (Effective January 1, 2022) Release of deed of trust or other lien
- § 55.1-340. Release by financial institution upon payment of debt placed with it for collection
- § 55.1-341. Partial satisfaction
- § 55.1-342. Permissible form for certificate of satisfaction or certificate of partial satisfaction
- § 55.1-343. Where certificates of satisfaction are to be indexed
- § 55.1-344. Releases made by court; costs and attorney fees
- § 55.1-345. Recordation of certificate of satisfaction, etc., required when release of lien recorded
Article 3. Satisfaction of Security Interest in Real Property
- § 55.1-346. Applicability
- § 55.1-347. Definitions
- § 55.1-348. Document of rescission; effect; liability for wrongful recording
- § 55.1-349. Secured creditor to submit satisfaction for recording; liability for failure
- § 55.1-350. Form and effect of satisfaction
- § 55.1-351. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § 55.1-352. Uniform standards
Article 4. Effect of Certain Expressions in Deeds
- § 55.1-353. Effect of word "covenants."
- § 55.1-354. Effect of covenant of general warranty
- § 55.1-355. Covenant of special warranty
- § 55.1-356. Words "with general warranty," "with special warranty," and "with English covenants of title" construed
- § 55.1-357. Implied warranties on new homes
- § 55.1-358. Effect of certain transfer fee covenants
- § 55.1-359. Covenant of "right to convey."
- § 55.1-360. Covenant for "quiet possession" and "free from all encumbrances."
- § 55.1-361. Covenant for "further assurances."
- § 55.1-362. Covenant of "no act to encumber."
- § 55.1-363. Effect of certain words of release in a deed
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