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Article 1

Creation and Transfer of Estates

55.1-100Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required 55.1-101When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid 55.1-102When gift of personal property invalid 55.1-103Suicide or attainder of felony 55.1-104Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery 55.1-105Same estates may be created by deed as by will 55.1-106Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary 55.1-107Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman 55.1-108Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another 55.1-109Deed valid for grantor's right; operation of warranty 55.1-110Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation 55.1-111Fee tail converted into fee simple 55.1-112Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished 55.1-113Doctrine of worthier title abolished 55.1-114When contingent remainder not to fail 55.1-115When remainders not defeated 55.1-116In what conveyances possession transferred to the use 55.1-117Land 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 55.1-118Deed of release effectual 55.1-119When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument 55.1-120Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact 55.1-121Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees 55.1-122Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate 55.1-123Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff's title