Every (i) gift, conveyance, assignment, or transfer of, or charge upon, any estate, real or personal, (ii) action commenced or order, judgment, or execution suffered or obtained, and (iii) bond or other writing given with intent to delay, hinder, or defraud creditors, purchasers, or other persons of or from what they are or may be lawfully entitled to shall, as to such creditors, purchasers, or other persons or their representatives or assigns, be void. This section shall not affect the title of a purchaser for valuable consideration, unless it appears that he had notice of the fraudulent intent of his immediate grantor or of the fraud rendering void the title of such grantor.
Code 1919, § 5184; Code 1950, § 55-80; 2019, c. 712.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 4 - Fraudulent and Voluntary Conveyances; Writings Necessary to Be Recorded
§ 55.1-400. Void fraudulent acts; bona fide purchasers not affected
§ 55.1-402. Creditor's action to avoid such gifts, conveyances, assignments, transfers, or charges
§ 55.1-403. Creditor's action; attorney fees
§ 55.1-404. Authority of court to set aside
§ 55.1-405. Loans and reservations of a use or property to be recorded
§ 55.1-406. Certain recorded contracts as valid as deeds
§ 55.1-408. Where to be recorded
§ 55.1-409. Recordation of instruments affecting civil aircraft of United States
§ 55.1-410. Priority of writings when admitted to record same day
§ 55.1-411. When writings to be recorded in county, and when in city
§ 55.1-412. Words "creditors" and "purchasers," how construed
§ 55.1-413. Lien of subsequent purchaser for purchase money paid before notice
§ 55.1-414. When purchaser not affected by record of deed or contract