§ 41.1-9. Lost records and papers in chains of title; bill in equity to establish ownership
If any record or paper constituting a link in the chain of title to any tract or parcel of land in this Commonwealth, has been or shall be lost or destroyed, and no authenticated copy thereof can be found, it shall be lawful for the person or persons, claiming the ownership of such tract or […]
§ 41.1-10. Same; order of court for survey
When the suit is ready for hearing, the court may make an order of survey, to be executed by such person as the court may appoint, requiring a complete survey and plat of the land in question to be made and returned, showing its connection with conterminous tracts, and any other circumstances necessary for its […]
§ 41.1-5. Circuit courts authorized to dispose of waste and unappropriated lands
The circuit courts of the counties and cities in which waste and unappropriated lands are alleged to lie are vested with authority to sell and dispose thereof in proceedings brought under §§ 41.1-16 through 41.1-20; however, no sale or disposition shall be made of lands mentioned in § 28.2-1200 or of lands as to which […]
§ 41.1-6. Ratification of grants issued pursuant to § 41.1-3
Any grants for land heretofore issued by the Librarian of Virginia pursuant to § 41.1-3 are hereby ratified and confirmed and title is confirmed in the grantees thereof. Code 1950, § 41-8.3; 1966, c. 427; 1970, c. 291; 1998, c. 427.
§ 41.1-7. Copies of unsigned grants admissible in evidence; Commonwealth’s right relinquished when certain taxes paid; correction of record
Where the records in the Land Office disclose the fact that the land warrants used as the foundation for a grant of any of the public lands of the Commonwealth, subject to grant, were fully paid for and that the right to such grant was finally and fully completed in the manner prescribed by law […]
§ 41.1-8. When grant invalid; when Commonwealth’s right relinquished to land settled on
No grant of any land which shall have been settled continuously for five years previously, upon which taxes shall have been paid at any time within such five years by the person having settled the same, or any person claiming under him, shall be valid; and any title which the Commonwealth may have to such […]
§ 41.1-2. Act changing name of Denny Martin taken as true; records, etc., of Northern Neck and other lands
In all suits, either at law or in equity, in which title to any land is derived or sought to be derived from Lord Fairfax, through Denny Martin Fairfax, it shall not be necessary in order to make out a chain of title, to prove the act of Parliament authorizing Denny Martin, the devisee of […]
§ 41.1-3. Grants of certain lands, etc., to be void; such lands, etc., under control of Governor
No grant shall be valid or effectual in law to pass any estate or interest in (i) any lands unappropriated or belonging to the Commonwealth, which embrace the old magazine at Westham, or any stone quarry now worked by the Commonwealth, or any lands which are within a mile of such magazine, or any such […]
§ 41.1-4. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 1995, c. 850.
§ 41.1-4.1. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 836.