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Virginia

Title 55.1 · Chapter 1
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-100. Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-101. When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-102. When gift of personal property invalid.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-103. Suicide or attainder of felony.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-104. Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-105. Same estates may be created by deed as by will.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-106. Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-107. Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-108. Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-109. Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-110. Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-111. Fee tail converted into fee simple.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-112. Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-113. Doctrine of worthier title abolished.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-114. When contingent remainder not to fail.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-115. When remainders not defeated.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-116. In what conveyances possession transferred to the use.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-117. 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.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-118. Deed of release effectual.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-119. When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-120. Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-121. Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-122. Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-123. Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-124. Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-125. When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-126. Reformation.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-127. Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-128. Prospective application.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-129. Uniformity of application and construction.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-130. Certain limitations construed.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-131. Employee trusts.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-132. Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-133. Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-134. Survivorship between joint tenants abolished.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-135. Joint ownership in real and personal property.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-136. Tenants by the entirety in real and personal property; certain trusts.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-137. Creation of solar easements.
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Code of Virginia § 55.1-138. Contents of solar easement agreements.
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