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This law was first created in 2024. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 27<\/a> and 158<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1473449,"object_type":"law","relational_id":369362,"identifier":"55.1-1608","token":"55.1\/III\/16\/55.1-1608","url":"\/55.1-1608\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-1608\/","token":"55.1\/III\/16\/55.1-1608","dublin_core":{"Title":"What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornment unnecessary","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-1608","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

In conveyances or devises of rents in fee, with powers of distress and reentry, or either of them, such powers shall pass to the grantee or devisee without express words. A grant or devise of a rent, or of a reversion or remainder, is good and effectual without attornment of the tenant, but no tenant who, before notice of the grant, paid the rent to the grantor shall suffer any damage as a result of such payment.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nWHAT POWERS TO PASS TO GRANTEE OR DEVISEE; WHEN ATTORNMENT UNNECESSARY (\u00a7\n55.1-1608)\n\nIn conveyances or devises of rents in fee, with powers of distress and reentry,\nor either of them, such powers shall pass to the grantee or devisee without\nexpress words. A grant or devise of a rent, or of a reversion or remainder, is\ngood and effectual without attornment of the tenant, but no tenant who, before\nnotice of the grant, paid the rent to the grantor shall suffer any damage as a\nresult of such payment.\n\nHISTORY: 2024, cc. 27, 158.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}