2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 37. REAL PROPERTY.
ARTICLE 1. LANDS OF INFANTS, INSANE PERSONS, OR CONVICTS, AND LANDS HELD IN TRUST.
- §37-1-1 Renewal of lease by or to persons under disability.
- §37-1-2 Sale, lease or mortgage; bill; parties; definition.
- §37-1-3 Guardian ad litem.
- §37-1-4 Depositions.
- §37-1-5 Decree.
- §37-1-6 Who not to be purchaser.
- §37-1-7 Investment of proceeds.
- §37-1-8 Joinder of spouse, or sale free of dower.
- §37-1-9 Release of dower under order of court; conveyance without joinder of spouse.
- §37-1-10 Proceeds of sale to descend as lands.
- §37-1-11 Summary proceedings for sale, lease or mortgage; petition; notice.
- §37-1-11a Jurisdiction of court in proceedings under article; process; investment not required if funds unavailable.
- §37-1-12 Guardian ad litem in summary proceeding.
- §37-1-13 Order; sale.
- §37-1-14 Bond for proceeds.
- §37-1-15 Application of proceeds; costs.
- §37-1-16 Confirmation; conveyance.
- §37-1-17 Validation of certain sales.
- §37-2-1 Repealed
- §37-2-2 Escheat of equitable interests.
- §37-2-3 Tenants of escheated land.
- §37-2-4 Escheator.
- §37-2-5 List of land by escheator.
ARTICLE 2A. PUBLIC LAND CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.
ARTICLE 2B. REDEMPTION OF, AND CLARIFICATION OF TITLE TO, REAL PROPERTY FORMERLY HELD FOR RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND IMPROPERLY EXEMPTED FROM TAXES.
- §37-2B-1 Compromise of state's claims.
- §37-2B-2 Auditor's receipt for redemption; receipt as release and discharge from taxes; recordation.
- §37-2B-3 Entry and back-taxing of property after redemption.
- §37-2B-4 Entry of property acquired after year 1942.
- §37-2B-5 Reports to auditor by assessor; when assessor to reenter property.
- §37-2B-6 Protection of purchasers of exempted property who have held for five years or more; right of redemption.
- §37-2B-7 Protection of constitutional transferees; priority of redemption.
- §37-2B-8 Purpose of article; power and jurisdiction of courts; state as party to suits.
- §37-2B-9 Auditor's power to provide for redemption of such property as not covered by other statutes.
ARTICLE 3. SALE OF LAND FOR BENEFIT OF SCHOOL FUND.
- §37-4-1 Who entitled to partition; jurisdiction; state as party plaintiff.
- §37-4-2 Allotting shares together.
- §37-4-3 Allotment or sale; procedure for allotment.
- §37-4-4 Determination of liens.
- §37-4-5 Sale of land free of dower.
- §37-4-6 Unknown owners.
- §37-4-7 Lessees.
- §37-4-8 Record; effect.
- §37-5-1 Excavations near boundaries.
- §37-5-2 Survey of mine.
- §37-5-3 Prosecution under preceding sections.
ARTICLE 6. LANDLORD AND TENANT.
- §37-6-1 Rights of parties on transfer of land or reversion.
- §37-6-2 Rights of lessee against transferee of reversion.
- §37-6-3 Effect of transfer of rent, reversion or remainder.
- §37-6-4 Attornment to stranger void.
- §37-6-5 Notice to terminate tenancy.
- §37-6-6 Desertion of leased property; entry; recovery of rent, disposition of abandoned personal property; notice.
- §37-6-7 Reletting by landlord.
- §37-6-8 Tenant's right to recover possession.
- §37-6-9 Recovery of rent by distress or action; evidence; interest.
- §37-6-10 Who may recover rent.
- §37-6-11 Persons liable for rent.
- §37-6-12 Distress for rent; time and place; warrant.
- §37-6-13 Property subject to distress.
- §37-6-14 Forcible entry by officer.
- §37-6-15 Unlawful act after making distress; damages.
- §37-6-16 Distress or attachment when rent not payable in money.
- §37-6-17 Attachment for rent.
- §37-6-18 Removal of goods by third party having lien.
- §37-6-19 Right of reentry; ejectment; unlawful detainer; judgment by default.
- §37-6-20 Relief against forfeiture.
- §37-6-21 Rights of mortgagee or trustee.
- §37-6-22 Injunction against ejectment or unlawful detainer.
- §37-6-23 Effect of payment of rent or relief in equity.
- §37-6-24 Record of reentry; publication of certificate.
- §37-6-25 Fees of clerk.
- §37-6-26 Payment of rent and reinstatement after reentry.
- §37-6-27 Defects in entry proceedings.
- §37-6-28 Destruction of buildings; abatement of rent.
- §37-6-29 Land taken by eminent domain; termination or reduction of rent.
- §37-6-30 Landlord to deliver premises; duty to maintain premises in fit and habitable condition.
- §37-7-1 Waste by tenant in possession.
- §37-7-2 Waste by cotenant.
- §37-7-3 Guardians.
- §37-7-4 Actions; damages.
- §37-7-5 Waste pending suit.
- §37-8-1 Lessee of tenant or owner of an uncertain interest.
- §37-8-2 Land employed in farming or planting.
- §37-8-3 At common law.
ARTICLE 9. APPORTIONMENT OF RENT.
- §37-9-1 Apportionment of rent on determination of estate.
- §37-9-2 Remedies for recovery.
- §37-9-3 Scope of article.
- §37-9-4 Apportionment on purchase of rent or part of land.
ARTICLE 10. LAND RECORDS PROCURED FROM VIRGINIA.
- §37-10-1 Custody of records procured from Virginia.
- §37-10-2 Charge of such records by auditor.
- §37-10-3 Copies from records as evidence; fees.
- §37-10-4 Fees.
ARTICLE 11. CURATIVE PROVISIONS RESPECTING DEEDS AND OTHER WRITINGS AND THE RECORDATION THEREOF.
- §37-11-1 Informality in deeds and other instruments.
- §37-11-2 Validation of instruments, acknowledgments and records.
- §37-11-3 Validation of acknowledgments defective in other respects.
- §;9, chapter 73, code 1868.
- §37-11-5 Presumption of jurisdiction in cases of judicial sales.
- §37-11-6 Presumption of authority of commissioners and certain other officers in certain cases.
- §37-12-1 Survey by magnetic meridian; variations; measurement.
- §37-12-2 Execution of orders of survey.
ARTICLE 13. REMOVAL, TRANSFER AND DISPOSITION OF REMAINS IN GRAVES LOCATED UPON PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS.
- §37-13-1 Jurisdiction to permit and order removal, etc.
- §37-13-1a Improvement, construction or development upon privately owned lands containing graves.
- §37-13-2 Action; contents of petition.
- §37-13-3 Parties; notice.
- §37-13-4 Hearing; discretion in granting or refusing relief; order.
- §37-13-5 Procedure upon removal.
- §37-13-6 Costs.
- §37-13-7 Remedy herein provided cumulative.
ARTICLE 13A. GRAVES LOCATED UPON PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS.
- §37-13A-1 Access of certain persons to cemeteries and graves located on private land.
- §37-13A-2 Purposes for which access is allowed.
- §37-13A-3 Conduct of persons accessing cemeteries or grave sites; persons liable for damage.
- §37-13A-4 Limiting the use of motor vehicles on private lands.
- §37-13A-5 Cause of action for injunctive relief.
- §37-13A-6 Application of article.
ARTICLE 14. THE REAL ESTATE APPRAISER LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION ACT.
ARTICLE 15. HOUSE TRAILERS, MOBILE HOMES, MANUFACTURED HOMES AND MODULAR HOMES.
- §37-15-1 Purpose and applicability.
- §37-15-2 Definitions.
- §37-15-3 Written agreement required.
- §37-15-3a Rules and regulations.
- §37-15-4 Liability of secured party taking possession of an abandoned factory-built home.
- §37-15-5 Demands and charges prohibited; access by tenant's invitee; purchases by factory-built home owner not restricted; exception; conditions of occupancy.
- §37-15-6 Termination of tenancy.
- §37-15-6a Termination of tenancy of more than twenty-five tenants.
- §37-15-7 Retaliatory conduct prohibited.
- §37-15-8 Effect on taxation.
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