If in a lease it be provided that "the lessor may reenter for default in the payment of rent or for the breach of covenants," or if the lease contains words of like import, such words shall have the effect of an agreement that if the rent reserved, or any part thereof, be unpaid on or after the day specified in the deed for the payment thereof, or if any of the other covenants on the part of the lessee, his personal representatives or assigns, be broken, then, in either of such cases, the lessor, or those entitled in his place, at any time afterwards, into and upon the demised premises, or any part thereof, in the name of the whole, may reenter and the same again have, repossess and enjoy, as of his or their former estate.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 36. Estates and Property
§36-4-1. Effect of Covenant in a Deed
§36-4-6. Freedom From Encumbrances
§36-4-7. Special Covenant Against Encumbrances
§36-4-9. Covenant to Pay Rents
§36-4-9b. Release of Terminated, Expired or Canceled Oil or Natural Gas Leases
§36-4-10. Covenant to Pay Taxes
§36-4-11. Covenant Against Assignment
§36-4-12. Covenant for Repairs
§36-4-13. Effect of Destruction of Buildings
§36-4-14. Covenant for Quiet Enjoyment
§36-4-15. Covenant for Reentry for Default of Lessee
§36-4-16. Covenants Shall Run With Land
§36-4-17. Construction of Covenants