Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Section 55-193 Escheat of estates in trust and equitable titles

§ 55-193. Escheat of estates in trust and equitable titles

An estate vested in a person merely by way of mortgage or on trust shall not escheat or be forfeited to the Commonwealth by reason of the mortgagee or trustee dying without heirs; but any equitable title to lands shall escheat or be forfeited, so far as it would, if the person having the equitable had the legal title.

(Code 1919, § 514; 1977, c. 583.)

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