The affixing of a seal, or any symbol or word intended to have the effect of a seal, shall not be necessary to give validity to any deed, trust deed, mortgage, or other conveyance of an estate of inheritance or freehold in land, or any estate of any duration therein.
Every deed conveying land shall, unless an exception be made therein, be construed to include all buildings, privileges, and appurtenances of every kind belonging to the lands therein embraced.
(a) Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context requires a different meaning: (1) “Attorney” means any person licensed as an attorney in West Virginia by the West Virginia State Bar.
An action of covenant may be maintained on any written conveyance or lease which, under the provisions of section one, article one of this chapter, must be by deed, and which has been executed since the twenty-sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, for the breach of any covenant or warranty or other agreement […]
The affixing of a seal, or any symbol or word intended to have the effect of a seal, to any instrument conveying or agreeing to convey land, or any interest whatever in land, shall not give to such instrument any additional force or effect, either by way of importing a consideration or in any other […]
All distinctions in legal effect between deeds of grant, deeds of bargain and sale, deeds of lease and release, and deeds of covenant to stand seized, are hereby abolished. Any instrument which shows on its face a present intent to pass the title to, or any interest, present or future, in real property, shall, if […]
A deed may be made in the following form, or to the same effect: "This deed made the …….. day of ………, in the year …….., between (here insert names of parties), witnesseth: That in consideration of (here state the consideration), the said …………… grants unto the said …………… all, etc. (Here describe the property, […]
(a) Any deed or instrument that initially grants or reserves an easement or right-of-way shall describe the easement or right-of-way by any of the following: (1) Metes and bounds;
If a deed of real property is in other respects valid, it shall not fail for want of a payment of consideration, or the recital of a consideration in the deed. No resulting or other trust in favor of the grantor in such deed shall arise from the mere fact that no consideration was paid […]
Whenever, in any deed, there shall be used the words "The said grantor releases to the said grantee all his claims upon the said lands," or words of like import, such deed shall be construed as if it set forth that the grantor or releasor hath remised, released, and forever quitted claim and by these […]
A deed of lease may be made in the following form or to the same effect: This deed, made the …… day of ……., in the year ……, between (here insert the names of the parties), witnesseth: That the said …………… demises unto the said ……………, his personal representatives and assigns, all, etc., (here describe […]
The deed of a sheriff or special commissioner for real estate sold under the decree, judgment or order of a court may be made in the following form, or to the same effect: This deed, made this …… day of ……, between A …………… B ……………, sheriff of the county of …………… (or special commissioner, […]
