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This act shall not be retrospective in its operation nor shall it in any way affect the rights of any individual, partnership, or corporation in any suit now pending in any of the courts of this Commonwealth or of the United States wherein the cause of action arose over, or is in any way based upon, the territory affected.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1287263,"text":"The boundary line between Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia shall be the watershed line of the top of the ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains as established by the survey approved by the Commission on April 29, 1997, and recorded in the land books in the courthouses of Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":1287264,"text":"No vested right of any individual, partnership, or corporation within the territory affected by this act shall in any wise be impaired, restricted, or affected by this act. 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This law was first created in 1993. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 141 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1993 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1998, chapter 123<\/a>; in 2005, chapter 839<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1370169,"object_type":"law","relational_id":345274,"identifier":"1-313","token":"1\/3.1\/1-313","url":"\/1-313\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/1-313\/","token":"1\/3.1\/1-313","dublin_core":{"Title":"Boundary line between Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 1-313","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> The boundary line between Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia shall be the watershed line of the top of the ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains as established by the survey approved by the Commission on April 29, 1997, and recorded in the land books in the courthouses of Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> No vested right of any individual, partnership, or corporation within the territory affected by this act shall in any wise be impaired, restricted, or affected by this act. This act shall not be retrospective in its operation nor shall it in any way affect the rights of any individual, partnership, or corporation in any suit now pending in any of the courts<\/span> of this Commonwealth or of the United States wherein the cause of action<\/span> arose over, or is in any way based upon, the territory affected. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST\nVIRGINIA (\u00a7 1-313)\n\nA. The boundary line between Loudoun County, Virginia, and Jefferson County,\nWest Virginia shall be the watershed line of the top of the ridge of the Blue\nRidge Mountains as established by the survey approved by the Commission on April\n29, 1997, and recorded in the land books in the courthouses of Loudoun County,\nVirginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia.\n\nB. No vested right of any individual, partnership, or corporation within the\nterritory affected by this act shall in any wise be impaired, restricted, or\naffected by this act. This act shall not be retrospective in its operation nor\nshall it in any way affect the rights of any individual, partnership, or\ncorporation in any suit now pending in any of the courts of this Commonwealth or\nof the United States wherein the cause of action arose over, or is in any way\nbased upon, the territory affected.\n\nHISTORY: 1993, c. 141, \u00a7 7.1-10.1; 1998, c. 123; 2005, c. 839.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}