Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020) |
TITLE 55. Property and Conveyances |
CHAPTER 1. Creation and Limitation of Estates; their Qualities |
SECTION 55-1. Aliens may acquire, hold and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required |
SECTION 55-2. When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid |
SECTION 55-3. When gift of goods or chattels invalid |
SECTION 55-4. Suicide or attainder |
SECTION 55-5. Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery |
SECTION 55-6. Same estates may be created by deed as by will |
SECTION 55-7. Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary |
SECTION 55-7.1. Repealed |
SECTION 55-8. Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman, etc |
SECTION 55-9. Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another |
SECTION 55-10. Deed good for grantor's right; operation of warranty |
SECTION 55-11. Grant, etc., without words of limitation |
SECTION 55-12. Fee tail converted into fee simple |
SECTION 55-12.1. Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities |
SECTION 55-12.2. When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created |
SECTION 55-12.3. Reformation |
SECTION 55-12.4. Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities |
SECTION 55-12.5. Prospective application |
SECTION 55-12.6. Uniformity of application and construction |
SECTION 55-13. Certain limitations construed |
SECTION 55-13.1. Employee trusts |
SECTION 55-13.2. Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities |
SECTION 55-13.3. Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers |
SECTION 55-14. Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished |
SECTION 55-14.1. Doctrine of worthier title abolished |
SECTION 55-15. When contingent remainder not to fail |
SECTION 55-16. When remainders not defeated |
SECTION 55-17. In what conveyances possession transferred to the use |
SECTION 55-17.1. 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 |
SECTION 55-18. Deed of release effectual |
SECTION 55-19. Repealed |
SECTION 55-19.1. Repealed |
SECTION 55-19.2. Repealed |
SECTION 55-19.3. Repealed |
SECTION 55-19.5. Provision in certain trust void |
SECTION 55-20. Survivorship between joint tenants abolished |
SECTION 55-20.1. Joint ownership in real and personal property |
SECTION 55-20.2. Tenants by the entireties in real and personal property; certain trusts |
SECTION 55-21. Exceptions to § 55-20 |
SECTION 55-22. When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument |
SECTION 55-23. Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact |
SECTION 55-24. Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees |
SECTION 55-25. Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate |
SECTION 55-25.1. Repealed |