CODE OF VIRGINIA

POSSESSION GIVES NO PREFERENCE AS TO ASSIGNMENT (§ 28.2-616)

Any person in possession of any general oyster-planting ground which has not
been assigned according to law shall have no preference as to having it assigned
to him.  The ground shall be open to the first applicant.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 28-124; 1954, c. 352; 1958, c. 183; 1960, c. 517; 1962,
c. 406, § 28.1-109(13); 1964, c. 393; 1966, c. 684; 1970, c. 726; 1972, c. 644;
1973, c. 14; 1978, cc. 546, 548; 1980, cc. 34, 609; 1984, c. 259; 1992, c. 836.