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§ 55.1-100. Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required - Any alien, not an enemy, may acquire by purchase or...
§ 55.1-101. When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid - A. No estate of inheritance or freehold in lands shall...
§ 55.1-102. When gift of personal property invalid - No gift of any personal property is valid (i) unless...
§ 55.1-103. Suicide or attainder of felony - Neither suicide nor attainder of felony shall cause a corruption...
§ 55.1-104. Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery - All real estate shall, as regards the conveyance of the...
§ 55.1-105. Same estates may be created by deed as by will - Any interest in or claim to real estate, including easements...
§ 55.1-106. Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary - If any interest in or claim to real estate or...
§ 55.1-107. Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman - If any tenant for life of land make default or...
§ 55.1-108. Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another - Any person having an estate or interest in real or...
§ 55.1-109. Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty - A writing that purports to pass or assure a greater...
§ 55.1-110. Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation - When any real estate is conveyed, devised, or granted to...
§ 55.1-111. Fee tail converted into fee simple - Every estate in lands so limited that, as the law...
§ 55.1-112. Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished - Wherever any person by deed, will, or other writing takes...
§ 55.1-113. Doctrine of worthier title abolished - The doctrine of worthier title is abolished in the Commonwealth...
§ 55.1-114. When contingent remainder not to fail - A contingent remainder shall not fail for want of a...
§ 55.1-115. When remainders not defeated - The alienation of a particular estate on which a remainder...
§ 55.1-116. In what conveyances possession transferred to the use - By deed of bargain and sale, or by deeds of...
§ 55.1-117. Land trusts not to fail because no beneficiaries are specified by name and no duties laid on trustee; when interest of beneficiaries deemed personal property; liens - No trust relating to real estate shall fail nor shall...
§ 55.1-118. Deed of release effectual - Every deed of release of any estate or interest capable...
§ 55.1-119. When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument - An immediate estate or interest in or the benefit of...
§ 55.1-120. Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact - If, in a deed made by one as attorney-in-fact for...
§ 55.1-121. Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees - All deeds made and executed prior to January 1, 1940,...
§ 55.1-122. Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate - When any person dies possessed of a life estate in...
§ 55.1-123. Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title - When a petition is filed to remove a cloud on...
§ 55.1-124. Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities - A. A nonvested property interest is invalid unless: 1. When...
§ 55.1-125. When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created - A. Except as provided in subsections B and C and...
§ 55.1-126. Reformation - Upon the petition of an interested person, a circuit court...
§ 55.1-127. Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities - A. Section 55.1-124 does not apply to: 1. A nonvested...
§ 55.1-128. Prospective application - Sections 55.1-124 through 55.1-129 apply to a nonvested property interest...
§ 55.1-129. Uniformity of application and construction - Sections 55.1-124 through 55.1-129 shall be applied and construed to...
§ 55.1-130. Certain limitations construed - Every limitation in any deed or will contingent upon the...
§ 55.1-131. Employee trusts - Pension, profit sharing, stock bonus, annuity, or other employee trusts...
§ 55.1-132. Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities - A. For the purpose of determining whether the terms of...
§ 55.1-133. Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers - A. Except for the transactions set forth in § 55.1-127,...
§ 55.1-134. Survivorship between joint tenants abolished - A. When any joint tenant dies, before or after the...
§ 55.1-135. Joint ownership in real and personal property - Any persons may own real or personal property as joint...
§ 55.1-136. Tenants by the entirety in real and personal property; certain trusts - A. Spouses may own real or personal property as tenants...
§ 55.1-137. Creation of solar easements - Any easement obtained for the purpose of exposure of solar...
§ 55.1-138. Contents of solar easement agreements - Any instrument creating a solar easement shall include, at a...