Chapter 1. Creation and Limitation of EstatesRead Chapter
- Article 1. Creation and Transfer of EstatesRead all
- § 55.1-100
- Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
- § 55.1-101
- When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
- § 55.1-102
- When gift of personal property invalid
- § 55.1-103
- Suicide or attainder of felony
- § 55.1-104
- Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
- § 55.1-105
- Same estates may be created by deed as by will
- § 55.1-106
- Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
- § 55.1-107
- Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman
- § 55.1-108
- Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another
- § 55.1-109
- Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty
- § 55.1-110
- Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation
- § 55.1-111
- Fee tail converted into fee simple
- § 55.1-112
- Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished
- § 55.1-113
- Doctrine of worthier title abolished
- § 55.1-114
- When contingent remainder not to fail
- § 55.1-115
- When remainders not defeated
- § 55.1-116
- In what conveyances possession transferred to the use
- § 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
- § 55.1-118
- Deed of release effectual
- § 55.1-119
- When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
- § 55.1-120
- Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
- § 55.1-121
- Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
- § 55.1-122
- Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
- § 55.1-123
- Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title
- Article 2. Rule Against PerpetuitiesRead all
- § 55.1-124
- Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities
- § 55.1-125
- When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created
- § 55.1-126
- Reformation
- § 55.1-127
- Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities
- § 55.1-128
- Prospective application
- § 55.1-129
- Uniformity of application and construction
- § 55.1-130
- Certain limitations construed
- § 55.1-131
- Employee trusts
- § 55.1-132
- Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities
- § 55.1-133
- Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers
- Article 3. Joint Ownership of Real or Personal PropertyRead all
- § 55.1-134
- Survivorship between joint tenants abolished
- § 55.1-135
- Joint ownership in real and personal property
- § 55.1-136
- Tenants by the entirety in real and personal property; certain trusts
- Article 4. Virginia Solar Easements ActRead all
- § 55.1-137
- Creation of solar easements
- § 55.1-138
- Contents of solar easement agreements
