In all suits, either at law or in equity, in which title to any land is derived or sought to be derived from Lord Fairfax, through Denny Martin Fairfax, it shall not be necessary in order to make out a chain of title, to prove the act of Parliament authorizing Denny Martin, the devisee of Lord Fairfax, to take the name of Fairfax, but the same shall be presumed and taken to be true to the same extent as if a properly authenticated copy of such act had been adduced in evidence.
The records, documents, and entries of land granted by the former lord proprietor of the Northern Neck, and of all land granted, or to be granted, by the Commonwealth, shall be in the keeping of the Librarian of Virginia in the Land Office in the City of Richmond.
Code 1950, § 41-2; 1970, c. 291; 1998, c. 427.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 41.1-1. Librarian of Virginia in charge of Land Office
§ 41.1-3. Grants of certain lands, etc., to be void; such lands, etc., under control of Governor
§ 41.1-5. Circuit courts authorized to dispose of waste and unappropriated lands
§ 41.1-6. Ratification of grants issued pursuant to § 41.1-3
§ 41.1-8. When grant invalid; when Commonwealth's right relinquished to land settled on
§ 41.1-9. Lost records and papers in chains of title; bill in equity to establish ownership
§ 41.1-10. Same; order of court for survey
§ 41.1-11. Same; when and how testimony taken
§ 41.1-12. Same; ownership certified by court; order as to costs
§ 41.1-13. Bill in equity for repeal of grant
§ 41.1-14. Nature of proceedings for repeal of grant
§ 41.1-15. Recording decree of repeal
§ 41.1-17. Same; time and place of hearing
§ 41.1-18. Same; subsequent proceedings; disposition of proceeds of sale
§ 41.1-19. Same; proceedings by governing body of county or city
§ 41.1-20. Same; sale extinguishes title and interest of Commonwealth