CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN TENANT DESERTS PREMISES, HOW LANDLORD MAY ENTER, ETC (§ 55-224)

If any tenant from whom rent is in arrear and unpaid shall desert the demised
premises and leave the same uncultivated or unoccupied, without goods thereon
subject to distress sufficient to satisfy the rent, the lessor or his agent may
post a notice, in writing, upon a conspicuous part of the premises requiring the
tenant to pay the rent, in the case of a monthly tenant within ten days, and in
the case of a yearly tenant within one month from the date of such notice. If
the same be not paid within the time specified in the notice, the lessor shall
be entitled to possession of the premises and may enter thereon and the right of
such tenant thereto shall thenceforth be at an end; but the landlord may recover
the rent up to that time.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5518.