No gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, which is not on consideration deemed valuable in law, or which is upon consideration of marriage, shall be avoided in whole or in part for that cause only, unless within five years from its recordation, and if not so recorded within five years from the time the same was or should have been discovered, suit be brought for that purpose, or the subject thereof, or some part of it, be distrained or levied on by or at the suit of a creditor, as to whom such gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, is declared to be void by § 55.1-401.
Code 1950, § 8-19; 1977, c. 617.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 4 - Limitations of Actions
§ 8.01-228. Scope of limitations; "personal action" defined
§ 8.01-230. Accrual of right of action
§ 8.01-231. Commonwealth not within statute of limitations
§ 8.01-232. Effect of promises not to plead statute of limitations
§ 8.01-234. Repeal of limitation not to remove bar of statute
§ 8.01-236. Limitation of entry on or action for land
§ 8.01-237. Effect of disabilities upon right of entry on, or action for, land
§ 8.01-240. Liens for water, sewer, or sidewalk assessments
§ 8.01-241.1. Permissible form for certificate
§ 8.01-242. Same; when no maturity date is given; credit line deeds of trust
§ 8.01-243.1. Actions for medical malpractice; minors
§ 8.01-243.2. Limitations of actions by confined persons; exhaustion
§ 8.01-244. Actions for wrongful death; limitation
§ 8.01-246. Personal actions based on contracts
§ 8.01-247.1. Limitation on action for defamation, etc.
§ 8.01-248. Personal actions for which no other limitation is specified
§ 8.01-249. When cause of action shall be deemed to accrue in certain personal actions
§ 8.01-250.1. Limitation on actions involving removal of asbestos
§ 8.01-251. Limitations on enforcement of judgments
§ 8.01-253. Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc.
§ 8.01-254. Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies
§ 8.01-255. Time for presenting claim against Commonwealth
§ 8.01-256. As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect