Chapter 1 - Creation and Limitation of Estates

Chapter 1 - Creation and Limitation of Estates

§ 55.1-100. (Effective October 1, 2019) Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
§ 55.1-101. (Effective October 1, 2019) When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
§ 55.1-102. (Effective October 1, 2019) When gift of personal property invalid
§ 55.1-103. (Effective October 1, 2019) Suicide or attainder of felony
§ 55.1-104. (Effective October 1, 2019) Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
§ 55.1-105. (Effective October 1, 2019) Same estates may be created by deed as by will
§ 55.1-106. (Effective October 1, 2019) Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
§ 55.1-107. (Effective October 1, 2019) Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman
§ 55.1-108. (Effective October 1, 2019) Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another
§ 55.1-109. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty
§ 55.1-110. (Effective October 1, 2019) Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation
§ 55.1-111. (Effective October 1, 2019) Fee tail converted into fee simple
§ 55.1-112. (Effective October 1, 2019) Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished
§ 55.1-113. (Effective October 1, 2019) Doctrine of worthier title abolished
§ 55.1-114. (Effective October 1, 2019) When contingent remainder not to fail
§ 55.1-115. (Effective October 1, 2019) When remainders not defeated
§ 55.1-116. (Effective October 1, 2019) in what conveyances possession transferred to the use
§ 55.1-117. (Effective October 1, 2019) 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. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deed of release effectual
§ 55.1-119. (Effective October 1, 2019) When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
§ 55.1-120. (Effective October 1, 2019) Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
§ 55.1-121. (Effective October 1, 2019) Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
§ 55.1-122. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
§ 55.1-123. (Effective October 1, 2019) Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title
§ 55.1-124. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities
§ 55.1-125. (Effective October 1, 2019) When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created
§ 55.1-126. (Effective October 1, 2019) Reformation
§ 55.1-127. (Effective October 1, 2019) Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities
§ 55.1-128. (Effective October 1, 2019) Prospective application
§ 55.1-129. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniformity of application and construction
§ 55.1-130. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certain limitations construed
§ 55.1-131. (Effective October 1, 2019) Employee trusts
§ 55.1-132. (Effective October 1, 2019) Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities
§ 55.1-133. (Effective October 1, 2019) Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers
§ 55.1-134. (Effective October 1, 2019) Survivorship between joint tenants abolished
§ 55.1-135. (Effective October 1, 2019) Joint ownership in real and personal property
§ 55.1-136. (Effective October 1, 2019) Tenants by the entirety in real and personal property; certain trusts
§ 55.1-137. (Effective October 1, 2019) Creation of solar easements
§ 55.1-138. (Effective October 1, 2019) Contents of solar easement agreements

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