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VA Code § 8.11-105 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.11 - 1973 Amendatory Act - Effective Date and Transition Provisions|§ 8.11-105. Transition provision on change of place of filing

(1) A financing statement or continuation statement filed prior to July 1, 1974, which shall not have lapsed prior to July 1, 1974, shall remain effective for the period provided in Title 8.9 as amended through 1972, but not less than five years after the filing.(2) With respect to any collateral acquired by the debtor subsequent to June 30, 1974, any effective financing statement or continuation statement described in this section shall apply only if the filing or filings are in the office or offices that would be appropriate to perfect the security interests in the new collateral under this act of 1973.(3) The effectiveness of any financing statement or continuation statement filed prior to July 1, 1974, may be continued by a continuation statement as permitted by this act, except that if this act requires a filing in an office where there was no previous financing statement, a new financing statement conforming to § 8.11-106 shall be filed in that office.(4) If the record of a mortgage of real estate would have been effective as a fixture filing of goods described therein if this act had been in effect on the date of recording the mortgage, the mortgage shall be deemed effective as a fixture filing as to such goods under subsection (6) of § 8.9-402 of this act on the effective date of this act.1973, c. 509.
VA Code § 8.11-106 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.11 - 1973 Amendatory Act - Effective Date and Transition Provisions|§ 8.11-106. Required refilings

(1) If a security interest is perfected or has priority when this act takes effect as to all persons or as to certain persons without any filing or recording, and if the filing of a financing statement would be required for the perfection or priority of the security interest against those persons under this act, the perfection and priority rights of the security interest continue until three years after the effective date of this act. The perfection will then lapse until a financing statement is filed as provided in subsection (4) or unless the security interest is perfected otherwise than by filing.(2) If a security interest is perfected when this act takes effect under a law other than Title 8.9A which requires no further filing, refiling or recording to continue its perfection, perfection continues until and will lapse three years after this act takes effect, unless a financing statement is filed as provided in subsection (4) or unless the security interest is perfected otherwise than by filing, or unless under subsection (3) of § 8.9-302 the other law continues to govern filing.(3) If a security interest is perfected by a filing, refiling or recording under a law repealed by this act which required further filing, refiling or recording to continue its perfection, perfection continues and will lapse on the date provided by the law so repealed for such further filing, refiling or recording unless a financing statement is filed as provided in subsection (4) or unless the security interest is perfected otherwise than by filing.(4) A financing statement may be filed within six months before the perfection of a security interest would otherwise lapse. Any such financing statement may be signed by either the debtor or the secured party. It must identify the security agreement, statement or notice (however denominated in any statute or other law repealed or modified by this act), state the office where and the date when the last filing, refiling or recording, if any, was made with respect thereto, and the filing number, if any, or book and page, if any, of recording and further state that the security agreement, statement or notice, however denominated, in another filing office under Title 8.9 or under any statute or other law repealed or modified by this act is still effective. Section 8.9-401 and § 8.9-103 determine the proper place to file such a financing statement. Except as specified in this subsection, the provisions of § 8.9-403 (3) for continuation statements apply to such a financing statement.1973, c. 509.
VA Code § 8.11-107 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.11 - 1973 Amendatory Act - Effective Date and Transition Provisions|§ 8.11-107. Transition provisions as to priorities

Except as otherwise provided in this title, Titles 8.1 through 8.9 as amended through 1972 shall apply to any questions of priority if the positions of the parties were fixed prior to the effective date of this act of 1973. In other cases questions of priority shall be determined by this act of 1973.1973, c. 509.
VA Code § 8.11-108 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.11 - 1973 Amendatory Act - Effective Date and Transition Provisions|§ 8.11-108. Presumption that rule of law continues unchanged

Unless a change in law has clearly been made, the provisions of this act of 1973 shall be deemed declaratory of the meaning of Titles 8.1 through 8.9 as amended through 1972.1973, c. 509.
VA Code § 41.1-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-1. Librarian of Virginia in charge of Land Office

The Librarian of Virginia shall be in charge of and keep and preserve all records of the Land Office.Code 1950, § 41-1; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291; 1998, c. 427.
VA Code § 41.1-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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 Lord Fairfax, to take the name of Fairfax, but the same shall be presumed and taken to be true to the same extent as if a properly authenticated copy of such act had been adduced in evidence.The records, documents, and entries of land granted by the former lord proprietor of the Northern Neck, and of all land granted, or to be granted, by the Commonwealth, shall be in the keeping of the Librarian of Virginia in the Land Office in the City of Richmond.Code 1950, § 41-2; 1970, c. 291; 1998, c. 427.
VA Code § 41.1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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 quarry; (ii) any ungranted beds of bays, rivers, creeks and the shores of the sea under § 28.2-1200; (iii) any natural oyster bed, rock, or shoal, whether such bed, rock, or shoal shall ebb bare or not; (iv) any islands created in the navigable waters of the Commonwealth through the instrumentality of dredging or filling operations; (v) any islands which rise from any lands which are property of the Commonwealth under § 28.2-1201; or (vi) any ungranted shores of the sea, marsh or meadowlands as defined in § 28.2-1500. Every such grant for any such lands, islands, bed, rock, or shoal shall be absolutely void; however, this section shall not be construed to affect the title to grants issued prior to March 15, 1932. Such magazine and every such stone quarry and the lands of the Commonwealth adjacent to or in their neighborhood, shall be under the control of the Governor, who may make such regulations concerning the same as he may deem best for the interests of the Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 41-8; 1970, c. 291; 1991, c. 378; 1995, c. 850.
VA Code § 41.1-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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 a grant could not have been issued by the Librarian of Virginia under § 41.1-3.Code 1950, § 41-8.2; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291; 1991, c. 378; 1995, c. 850; 1998, c. 427.
VA Code § 41.1-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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.
VA Code § 41.1-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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 land shall be relinquished to the person in possession of the land claiming the same under such settlement and payment to the extent of the boundary line enclosing the same. But such boundary line shall not include more than 1,500 acres; and any person who has made such settlement and paid such taxes, or anyone claiming under him, may have the land surveyed, and prove the settlement and payment before the circuit court of the county where the land, or a greater part thereof, lies, whereupon such court shall order the plat and certificate of survey to be recorded. Such record shall be conclusive evidence in any controversy between the claimant thereunder and any person claiming under a location of the land made after the date of such order. This section shall relate as well to land forfeited for nonpayment of taxes, or for the failure to have the same entered on the commissioner's books, or both those causes, and to land escheated or escheatable, as to waste and unappropriated lands.Code 1950, § 41-39; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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 parcel of land, to file in the circuit court of the county, or circuit court of the city, in which such land, or the greater part thereof, is situated, a bill in equity, setting forth the circumstances of such loss or destruction, and giving a history of the title and possession of such tract or parcel of land, and a full description thereof, with the names of the persons in possession of the conterminous parcels. All persons appearing to have an interest in such lands, or to be in possession thereof, or of any adjoining parcel, shall be either plaintiffs or defendants, and the proceedings to mature the cause shall be the same as in other suits in equity, except that in every case there shall be an order of publication, setting forth briefly the purpose of the proceeding and notifying all persons interested to appear and look after their interests.Code 1950, § 41-68; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 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 thorough identification.Code 1950, § 41-69; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-11. Same; when and how testimony taken

Upon the return of such survey and plat, testimony may be taken as in other suits in equity, but no notice of the taking of such testimony need be given to any defendant who has not appeared and answered the bill.Code 1950, § 41-70; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-12. Same; ownership certified by court; order as to costs

If, upon such survey and plat, and upon the other facts in the cause, the court shall be clearly satisfied of the ownership of the tract or parcel of land shown by such survey and plat, and that there is no controversy about such ownership, it shall certify the same of record, and shall make such order concerning the costs as may seem proper.Code 1950, § 41-71; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-13. Bill in equity for repeal of grant

The Commonwealth, or any other party desiring to repeal, in whole or in part, any grant of land because it was obtained by fraud, or issued contrary to law, or to the prejudice of such party's equitable right, may file a bill in equity for that purpose in the circuit court of the county, or the circuit court of the city, in which the land, or some part thereof, lies, exhibiting with the bill a certified copy of the patent, and making all proper parties.Code 1950, § 41-75; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-14. Nature of proceedings for repeal of grant

The proceedings thereupon shall be as in other suits in equity, and on the final hearing the court shall make such decree as law and equity may require.Code 1950, § 41-76; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-15. Recording decree of repeal

Any decree for such repeal, in whole or in part, shall be certified to the Librarian of Virginia, and shall thereupon be recorded by the Librarian of Virginia in the manner prescribed in § 55.1-2423.Code 1950, § 41-77; 1970, c. 291; 1982, c. 565; 1998, c. 427.
VA Code § 41.1-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-16. Sale of wastelands; proceeding by citizen resident; motion and deposit for costs; parties; copy of plat

Any citizen, resident of this Commonwealth, who has reason to believe that there are waste and unappropriated lands in this Commonwealth (not being excluded under § 41.1-3 from grant), shall have the right to file a proceeding in the name of the county or city seeking the sale and disposition of such land. The venue for such a proceeding shall be as specified in subdivision 3 of § 8.01-261. The proceeding shall be instituted by motion signed by the party who institutes the proceeding, or on his behalf, and shall be accompanied with a deposit to cover the costs of the proceeding but in no event to exceed $100. Each landowner adjoining the tract in question shall be made a party to the proceedings.He shall file with the motion a copy of a plat prepared by a licensed land surveyor giving the metes and bounds of the land alleged to be waste and unappropriated. A copy of the motion and plat shall be served upon each of the landowners adjoining the tract in question.Code 1950, § 41-84; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291; 1977, c. 624; 1995, c. 850.
VA Code § 41.1-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-17. Same; time and place of hearing

Upon the docketing of the motion, the court shall set a time and place to hear the merits of the proceeding. Such hearing shall be held not less than thirty nor more than sixty days from the date upon which the same was filed.Code 1950, § 41-85; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-18. Same; subsequent proceedings; disposition of proceeds of sale

Thereafter the proceedings shall conform, mutatis mutandis, to the provisions of Article 4 (§ 58.1-3965 et seq.) of Chapter 39 of Title 58.1 but on the motion of any party the sale of such land shall be public. From the proceeds of sale, after the expenses of suit and other costs incident to the sale, the person instituting the proceeding shall be reimbursed his deposit and costs expended up to the time the proceeding is docketed; but if such proceeds be insufficient to pay the expenses of suit and other costs incidental to the sale, the deficiency shall be paid by the person, county or city instituting the suit. The remainder left from the proceeds of sale after the payment of costs, expenses of suit and other expenses of sale shall be paid into the treasury of the county or city, as the case may be.Code 1950, § 41-87; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-19. Same; proceedings by governing body of county or city

The governing body of the county or city in which any waste or unappropriated land lies may, without deposit of costs, initiate proceedings under this chapter to have such lands sold under the provisions hereof.Code 1950, § 41-88; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 41.1-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 41.1 - Land Office|§ 41.1-20. Same; sale extinguishes title and interest of Commonwealth

All right, title and interest of the Commonwealth, except as shown by an instrument recorded in the clerk's office of the court of the city or county in which deeds are admitted to record in which land is sold under the provisions hereof shall be extinguished by such sale.Code 1950, § 41-89; 1952, c. 185; 1970, c. 291.
VA Code § 1-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-1. Contents and designation of Code

The laws embraced in this and the following titles, chapters, articles and sections of this act shall constitute, and be designated and cited as the "Code of Virginia," hereinafter referred to as "the Code" or "this Code." TestCode 1919, § 1; R. P. 1948, § 1-1.
VA Code § 1-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-2. Effective date of Code

All the provisions of this Code shall be in force on and after February 1, 1950, except as provided in § 1-2.1.Code 1919, § 6567; R. P. 1948, § 1-2.
VA Code § 1-2.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-2.1. Effective date of certain provisions

The following provisions of this Code shall become effective July 1, 1948, namely:Chapter 1 of Title 1; Chapters 1, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, and 16 of Title 2; Chapter 13 of Title 3; Chapter 11 of Title 6; Chapters 2 and 5 of Title 9; all of Title 10; Article 7 of Chapter 1 of Title 14; Article 3 of Chapter 6 of Title 18; Chapter 2 of Title 19; Chapter 3 of Title 24; Chapter 3 of Title 27; Chapters 15 and 19 of Title 32; all of Title 41; Article 4 of Chapter 6 of Title 42; Articles 2 and 12 of Chapter 1 of Title 44 and all of Chapter 2 of Title 44; Chapter 3 of Title 51; Chapter 1 of Title 52; Chapters 1 through 14, inclusive, of Title 53; Chapter 24 of Title 54; Chapters 12 and 13 of Title 59; Chapter 7 of Title 62; all of Title 63 except Chapter 13.R. P. 1948, § 1-2.1.
VA Code § 1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-3. Repeal of acts of a general nature

All acts and parts of acts of a general nature, in force at the time of the adoption of this Code, shall be repealed from and after February 1, 1950, with such limitations and exceptions as are hereinafter expressed; and all acts and parts of acts of a general nature in force at the time of the adoption of this Code, and in conflict with any of the provisions of this Code which by virtue of § 1-2.1 become effective on July 1, 1948, shall be repealed from and after July 1, 1948, with such limitations and exceptions as are hereinafter expressed.Code 1919, § 6567; R. P. 1948, § 1-3.
VA Code § 1-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-4. Effect of such repeal generally; effect of revision or amendment of state Constitution

No such repeal nor any amendment or revision of the Constitution of Virginia shall affect any offense or act committed or done, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred, or any right established, accrued, or accruing before the day upon which such repeal, amendment or revision takes effect, or any prosecution, suit, or proceeding pending on that day, except that the proceedings thereafter had shall conform, so far as practicable, to the provisions of this Code; and where any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment is mitigated by those provisions, such provisions may, with the consent of the party affected, be applied to any judgment to be pronounced after that day; and such repeal, amendment or revision as to any statute of limitations, under which the bar of a right of action or remedy is complete at the time the repeal, amendment or revision takes effect, shall not be deemed a removal of such bar, but the bar shall continue, notwithstanding such repeal, amendment or revision.Code 1919, § 6569; R. P. 1948, § 1-4; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 14.
VA Code § 1-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-5. Effect of such repeal as to persons in office

All persons who, at the time when such repeal takes effect, shall hold any office under any of the acts hereby repealed, shall continue to hold the same according to the tenure thereof, except those offices which may have been abolished, and those as to which a different provision is made by this Code.Code 1919, § 6571; R. P. 1948, § 1-5.
VA Code § 1-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-6. Effect of repeal of validating statutes

The repeal by any provisions of this Code of a statute validating previous acts, contracts or transactions shall not affect the validity of such acts, contracts or transactions, but the same shall remain as valid as if there had been no such repeal, but no further.Code 1919, § 8; R. P. 1948, § 1-6.
VA Code § 1-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-7. Acts passed between certain dates not affected

The enactment of this Code shall not affect any act passed by the General Assembly, which shall have become a law after January 14, 1948, and before February 1, 1950; but every such act shall have full effect, and so far as the same varies from or conflicts with any provision contained in this Code it shall have effect as a subsequent act, and as repealing any part of this Code inconsistent therewith; provided, however, that any such act which becomes a law between said dates and which amends and reenacts, or reenacts any previously existing provisions of law conferring any power or imposing any duty upon any department, board, commission, agency or officer of the state government whose functions, powers and duties are affected by any of the provisions of this Code becoming effective July 1, 1948, shall be construed as conferring the powers and imposing the duties specified therein upon the department, board, commission, agency or officer of the state government to which or to whom the duties and powers imposed or conferred by such previously existing provisions of law were transferred by the provisions of this Code becoming effective July 1, 1948.Code 1919, § 6568; R. P. 1948, § 1-7.
VA Code § 1-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Code of Virginia|§ 1-8. Notice, recognizance or process given, taken or issued before Code in force

Although a notice, recognizance or process shall have been given, taken or issued before the day prescribed for the commencement of this Code, or of any provisions of this Code, it may, nevertheless, be given, taken or returnable to a day after such commencement, or to a court established by this Code or the clerk's office of such court, in like manner as if this Code had commenced before the same was given, taken, or issued.Code 1919, § 6570; R. P. 1948, § 1-8.