Virginia § 55.1-130 Certain limitations construed

Virginia Statutes

§ 55.1-130 — Certain limitations construed

Virginia § 55.1-130

JurisdictionVirginia

Title 55.1Property and Conveyances

Subtitle IProperty Conveyances

Ch. 1Creation and Limitation of Estates

Art. 2Rule Against Perpetuities

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Va. Code Ann. § 55.1-130 (2026).

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Every limitation in any deed or will contingent upon the dying of any person without heirs, heirs of the body, issue, issue of the body, children, offspring or descendants, or other relatives shall be construed a limitation to take effect when such person dies not having such heir, issue, child, offspring, descendant, or other relative, as the case may be, living at the time of his death, or born to him within 10 months after his death, unless the intention of such limitation be otherwise plainly declared on the face of the deed or will creating it.

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Every limitation in any deed or will contingent upon the dying of any person without heirs, heirs of the body, issue, issue of the body, children, offspring or descendants, or other relatives shall be construed a limitation to take effect when such person dies not having such heir, issue, child, offspring, descendant, or other relative, as the case may be, living at the time of his death, or born to him within 10 months after his death, unless the intention of such limitation be otherwise plainly declared on the face of the deed or will creating it.