Code of Virginia - Title 41.1 Land Office - Chapter

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. ...

41.1-2 Act changing name of Denny Martin taken as true; records, etc., of Northern Neck and other land...
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, ...

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, ...

41.1-4 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1995, c. 850. ...

41.1-4.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 836. ...

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 ...

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 ...

41.1-7 Copies of unsigned grants admissible in evidence; Commonwealth's right relinquished when certain ta...
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

41.1-16 Sale of wastelands; proceeding by citizen resident; motion and deposit for costs; parties; copy of ...
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 ...

41.1-17 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...