Creation and Limitation of Estates

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Section
55.1-100

Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required

Section
55.1-101

When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid

Section
55.1-102

When gift of personal property invalid

Section
55.1-103

Suicide or attainder of felony

Section
55.1-104

Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery

Section
55.1-105

Same estates may be created by deed as by will

Section
55.1-106

Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary

Section
55.1-107

Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman

Section
55.1-108

Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another

Section
55.1-109

Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty

Section
55.1-110

Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation

Section
55.1-111

Fee tail converted into fee simple

Section
55.1-112

Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished

Section
55.1-113

Doctrine of worthier title abolished

Section
55.1-114

When contingent remainder not to fail

Section
55.1-115

When remainders not defeated

Section
55.1-116

In what conveyances possession transferred to the use

Section
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

Section
55.1-118

Deed of release effectual

Section
55.1-119

When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument

Section
55.1-120

Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact

Section
55.1-121

Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees

Section
55.1-122

Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate

Section
55.1-123

Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title

Section
55.1-124

Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities

Section
55.1-125

When nonvested property interest or power of appointment created

Section
55.1-126

Reformation

Section
55.1-127

Exclusions from statutory rule against perpetuities

Section
55.1-128

Prospective application

Section
55.1-129

Uniformity of application and construction

Section
55.1-130

Certain limitations construed

Section
55.1-131

Employee trusts

Section
55.1-132

Determination of "lives in being" for purpose of rule against perpetuities

Section
55.1-133

Application of the rule against perpetuities to nondonative transfers

Section
55.1-134

Survivorship between joint tenants abolished

Section
55.1-135

Joint ownership in real and personal property

Section
55.1-136

Tenants by the entirety in real and personal property; certain trusts

Section
55.1-137

Creation of solar easements

Section
55.1-138

Contents of solar easement agreements