Code of Virginia
Chapter 4 - Limitations of Actions
§ 8.01-253. Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc.

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.

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Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure

Chapter 4 - Limitations of Actions

§ 8.01-228. Scope of limitations; "personal action" defined

§ 8.01-229. Suspension or tolling of statute of limitations; effect of disabilities; effect of death; injunction; prevention of service by defendant; dismissal, nonsuit or abatement; devise for payment of debts; new promises; debts proved in creditor...

§ 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

§ 8.01-233. When action deemed brought on counterclaim or cross-claim; when statute of limitations tolled; defendant's consent required for dismissal

§ 8.01-234. Repeal of limitation not to remove bar of statute

§ 8.01-235. Bar of expiration of limitation period raised only as affirmative defense in responsive pleading

§ 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

§ 8.01-238. To repeal grant

§ 8.01-239. Ground rents

§ 8.01-240. Liens for water, sewer, or sidewalk assessments

§ 8.01-241. Limitation of enforcement of deeds of trust, mortgages and liens for unpaid purchase money

§ 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. Personal action for injury to person or property generally; extension in actions for malpractice against health care provider

§ 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

§ 8.01-245. Limitation on actions upon the bond of any fiduciaries or as to suits against fiduciaries themselves; accrual of cause of action where execution sustained

§ 8.01-246. Personal actions based on contracts

§ 8.01-247. When action on contract governed by the law of another state or country barred in Virginia

§ 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. Limitation on certain actions for damages arising out of defective or unsafe condition of improvements to real property

§ 8.01-250.1. Limitation on actions involving removal of asbestos

§ 8.01-251. Limitations on enforcement of judgments

§ 8.01-252. Repealed

§ 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

§ 8.01-255.1. Limitation of action for breach of condition subsequent or termination of determinable fee simple estate

§ 8.01-255.2. Limitation on motion for new execution after loss of property sold under indemnity bond

§ 8.01-256. As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect