Code of Virginia - Title 55 Property And Conveyances - Chapter 11 Estrays And Drift Property

• 55-202 Estray, or boat adrift, to be valued and described
  Any person may take up an estray found on his land or a boat or vessel adrift. He shall immediately inform the court not of ...
• 55-203 Valuation, etc., to be recorded and posted
  The freeholders shall return their certificate, with the warrant, to the clerk of the circuit court of the county, or clerk of the corporation court ...
• 55-204 When landowner, etc., entitled to the property
  If the owner of such property has not then appeared and the valuation thereof be under five dollars, or if such valuation is as much ...
• 55-205 Right of recovery by former owner
  The former owner may at any time after recover the valuation money except the amount of the clerk's and printer's fees and such compensation for ...
• 55-206 When landowner, etc., not liable
  If such estray die or any such property be lost to the owner of the land or person taking it up, without his fault, he ...
• 55-207 Who entitled to drift property
  When any property, not mentioned in § 55-202 is drifted on any of the waters of this Commonwealth and deposited and left on the lands ...
• 55-208 Conditions on which owner may remove it
  The owner of such property, after he shall have paid to the owner of the land a just compensation for any proper care, labor or ...
• 55-209 When owner of land may sell drift property; owner of property entitled to proceeds after payment o...
  If the owner of the property shall not, within three months from the time the same was so deposited, remove or demand the property from ...
• 55-210 Right of property to be proved
  In any action, suit, prosecution or controversy about any such property, the person, other than the owner of such land, claiming to be the owner ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009