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It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1975, chapter 284; in 2019, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0712\">712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1472137,"object_type":"law","relational_id":369889,"identifier":"55.1-333","token":"55.1\/I\/3\/2\/55.1-333","url":"\/55.1-333\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-333\/","token":"55.1\/I\/3\/2\/55.1-333","dublin_core":{"Title":"Validation of certain sales made under deeds of trust","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-333","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>All sales that have been made prior to January 1, 1972, under deeds of trust to secure debts and indemnify sureties containing a provision requiring the giving of notice of sale thereunder for a specified number of days by advertisement in one or more newspapers and that were made after publishing the advertisement of sale in a newspaper published daily or in a newspaper published daily except Sunday for the number of days specified in the deed of trust, counting both the day of the first publication and the day of the last publication and intervening Sundays, whether or not such paper was published on Sunday and whether or not such sales were held on the day of the last publication, provided that, in cases when the sale was held on the day of the last publication, the publication was in a newspaper the principal daily edition of which was delivered or publicly sold before the time fixed for the sale, and whether or not the first publication or the last publication, or both, appeared on Sunday, shall be held, and the same are hereby declared, to be valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid and effective according to the <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span> then in force, provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed as affecting any <span class=\"dictionary\">final order<\/span> entered prior to March 24, 1934, by any <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> of competent <span class=\"dictionary\">jurisdiction<\/span> or as affecting any action now pending in any <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> of competent <span class=\"dictionary\">jurisdiction<\/span>, and provided further, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect intervening vested rights.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nVALIDATION OF CERTAIN SALES MADE UNDER DEEDS OF TRUST (\u00a7 55.1-333)\n\nAll sales that have been made prior to January 1, 1972, under deeds of trust to\nsecure debts and indemnify sureties containing a provision requiring the giving\nof notice of sale thereunder for a specified number of days by advertisement in\none or more newspapers and that were made after publishing the advertisement of\nsale in a newspaper published daily or in a newspaper published daily except\nSunday for the number of days specified in the deed of trust, counting both the\nday of the first publication and the day of the last publication and intervening\nSundays, whether or not such paper was published on Sunday and whether or not\nsuch sales were held on the day of the last publication, provided that, in cases\nwhen the sale was held on the day of the last publication, the publication was\nin a newspaper the principal daily edition of which was delivered or publicly\nsold before the time fixed for the sale, and whether or not the first\npublication or the last publication, or both, appeared on Sunday, shall be held,\nand the same are hereby declared, to be valid and effective in all respects, if\notherwise valid and effective according to the law then in force, provided,\nhowever, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed as affecting\nany final order entered prior to March 24, 1934, by any court of competent\njurisdiction or as affecting any action now pending in any court of competent\njurisdiction, and provided further, that nothing in this section shall be so\nconstrued as to affect intervening vested rights.\n\nHISTORY: 1934, p. 257; Michie Code 1942, \u00a7 5167b; Code 1950, \u00a7 55-65; 1975, c.\n284; 2019, c. 712.","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"}}