Creation And Limitation Of Estates; Their Qualities
This is Chapter 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Creation And Limitation Of Estates; Their Qualities.” It is part of Title 55, titled “Property And Conveyances.” It’s comprised of the following 44 sections.
- § 55-1
- Aliens may acquire, hold and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
- § 55-10
- Deed good for grantor's right; operation of warranty
- § 55-11
- Grant, etc., without words of limitation
- § 55-12
- Fee tail converted into fee simple
- § 55-12.1
- Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities
- § 55-12.2
- When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created
- § 55-12.3
- Reformation
- § 55-12.4
- Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities
- § 55-12.5
- Prospective application
- § 55-12.6
- Uniformity of application and construction
- § 55-13
- Certain limitations construed
- § 55-13.1
- Employee trusts
- § 55-13.2
- Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities
- § 55-13.3
- Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers
- § 55-14
- Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished
- § 55-14.1
- Doctrine of worthier title abolished
- § 55-15
- When contingent remainder not to fail
- § 55-16
- When remainders not defeated
- § 55-17
- In what conveyances possession transferred to the use
- § 55-17.1
- 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
- § 55-18
- Deed of release effectual
- § 55-19
- Repealed
- § 55-19.1
- Repealed
- § 55-19.2
- Repealed
- § 55-19.3
- Repealed
- § 55-19.5
- Provision in certain trust void
- § 55-2
- When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
- § 55-20
- Survivorship between joint tenants abolished
- § 55-20.1
- Joint ownership in real and personal property
- § 55-20.2
- Tenants by the entireties in real and personal property; certain trusts
- § 55-21
- Exceptions to § 55-20
- § 55-22
- When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
- § 55-23
- Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
- § 55-24
- Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
- § 55-25
- Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
- § 55-25.1
- Repealed
- § 55-3
- When gift of goods or chattels invalid
- § 55-4
- Suicide or attainder
- § 55-5
- Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
- § 55-6
- Same estates may be created by deed as by will
- § 55-7
- Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
- § 55-7.1
- Repealed
- § 55-8
- Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman, etc
- § 55-9
- Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another