Modes or acquiring title to real propertyAnderson Bros., University of Virginia, 1908 |
Common terms and phrases
11 Gratt 29 Gratt actual adverse possession alienation ancestor applies appointment assignment Bank Brown claim Clark Code collateral common law contract to convey court of equity covenant creditors Davis deed of trust descended devise doctrine effect enacted estoppel executed executory exercise fee simple feoffment fraud fraudulent fraudulent conveyance freehold grantee grantor heirs inheritance instrument Insts intent interest Jackson Jones land Law Reg lease Leigh Leigh Va lessee lien Mass Moore Munf notice occupant Outline of Discussion owner parties Penn person prescriptive period purchaser for value Rand real estate Real Prop References to pages registry release revocation seal seised seisin Smith statute of Frauds statutory subsequent purchasers Sugden tax deed Tax-Titles Taylor tenant testator's thereof Thompson Tiffany tion tract transfer valid valuable consideration vendor vested Virginia statute void warranty wife writing
Popular passages
Page 1418 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Page 1283 - The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed in any manner to affect or impair the title of a purchaser for a valuable consideration, unless it shall appear that such purchaser had previous notice of the fraudulent intent of his immediate grantor, or of the fraud rendering void the title of such grantor.
Page 1212 - It is not sufficient that a covenant is concerning the land, but, in order to make it run with the land, there must be a privity of estate between the covenanting parties.
Page 1375 - ... at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 1410 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 1375 - No will shall be valid unless it be in writing and signed by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction, in such manner as to make it manifest that the name is intended as a signature...
Page 1508 - ... that the other party was not only destitute of all knowledge of the true state of the title, but of the means of acquiring such knowledge ; and, fourth, that he relied directly upon such admission, and will be injured by allowing its truth to be disproved.
Page 1318 - A lease is properly a conveyance of any lands or tenements (usually in consideration of rent or other annual recompense) made for life, for years, or at will, but always for a less time than the lessor hath in the premises ; for if it be for the whole interest, it is more properly an assignment than a lease.
Page 1079 - Such child shall be to all intents and purposes the child and legal heir of the person so adopting him or her, entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the obligations of a child of such person begotten in lawful wedlock...
Page 1426 - The general rule is that nothing is to be considered as a part performance which does not put the party into a situation which is a fraud upon him, unless the agreement is fully performed.