Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Section 55-227 Remedy for rent and for use and occupation

§ 55-227. Remedy for rent and for use and occupation

Rent of every kind may be recovered by distress or action. A landlord may also, by action, recover, when the agreement is not by deed, a reasonable satisfaction for the use and occupation of lands. On the trial of such action, if any parol demise or any agreement not by deed whereon a certain rent was reserved shall appear in evidence, the plaintiff shall not therefor be nonsuited, but may use the same as evidence of the amount of his debt or damages. In any action for rent, or for such use and occupation, interest shall be allowed as on other contracts.

(Code 1919, § 5519.)

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