CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOUNDARY LINES OF CERTAIN LOW GROUNDS ON JAMES RIVER A LAWFUL FENCE (§ 55-302)

The owners and occupants of low grounds on either side of the James River in the
Counties of Buckingham, Albemarle, and Goochland, enclosed by lawful fences on
the back and hill lands, need not keep up any fence on the boundary lines
running across the low grounds to the river, and such boundary lines shall be
deemed a lawful fence, except where public roads cross the river or run parallel
with its banks.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-872; 1977, c. 624.