A tenant from year-to-year, month-to-month, or other definite term in a nonresidential rental property shall not, by his mere failure to vacate the premises upon the expiration of the lease, be held as tenant for another term when such failure is not due to his willfulness, negligence, or other avoidable cause, but such tenant shall be liable to the lessor for use and occupation of the premises and also for any loss or damage sustained by the lessor because of such failure to surrender possession at the time stipulated.
Code 1919, § 5517; Code 1950, § 55-223; 2017, c. 730; 2019, c. 712.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 14 - Nonresidential Tenancies
§ 55.1-1400. Applicability; right to terminate tenant
§ 55.1-1402. Apportionment on purchase of part of land by holder of rent
§ 55.1-1403. Perfection of lien or interest in leases, rents, and profits
§ 55.1-1405. Transfer of deposits upon purchase
§ 55.1-1406. Grantees and assignees have same rights against lessees as lessors
§ 55.1-1407. Lessees have same rights against grantees as against lessors
§ 55.1-1408. What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornment unnecessary
§ 55.1-1409. When attornment void
§ 55.1-1412. Security systems for nonresidential rental property
§ 55.1-1414. Abandonment of nonresidential rental property
§ 55.1-1415. Failure to pay certain rents after five days' notice forfeits right of possession
§ 55.1-1417. Who may recover rent or possession
§ 55.1-1418. Remedy when rent is to be paid in other thing than money
§ 55.1-1419. Proceedings to establish right of reentry; judgment
§ 55.1-1420. When defendant barred of relief
§ 55.1-1421. How trustee or mortgagee relieved from the forfeiture
§ 55.1-1422. How owner relieved in court
§ 55.1-1423. How judgment of forfeiture prevented
§ 55.1-1424. When action for reentry brought
§ 55.1-1425. Written act of reentry to be returned and recorded and certificate of reentry published
§ 55.1-1427. How person entitled to lands may be restored to his possession
§ 55.1-1428. Limitation of action against person in possession by reentry