No conveyance or other act by one spouse only of any land that is the inheritance of the other spouse shall be or make any discontinuance thereof, or be prejudicial to the other spouse or his heirs or to any having right or title to the same by his death, but they may respectively enter into such land, according to their right and title in such land, as if no such conveyance or act had been done.
Code 1919, § 5442; Code 1950, § 55-39; 2019, c. 712.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 2 - Property Rights of Married Persons
§ 55.1-200. How married persons may acquire and dispose of property
§ 55.1-201. Contracts of, and actions by and against, married persons
§ 55.1-204. Rights of spouse not affected by other spouse's acts only
§ 55.1-205. Conveyance from married persons; effect on right of either spouse
§ 55.1-206. How infant spouse may release interests in spouse's property
§ 55.1-208. How estate of a married person to pass at death