{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-json\/57-6.1.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-text\/57-6.1.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-xml\/57-6.1.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2026\/code-html\/57-6.1.html"}],"law_id":370842,"edition_id":2,"section_id":370842,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-6.1","catch_line":"Validity of literary, educational, and charitable gifts, grants, devises, or bequests","history":"1976, c. 546, \u00a7 55-26.1; 2019, c. 712.","full_text":"Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 2, 1839, for literary or educational purposes, and every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 6, 1976, for charitable purposes, whether made in any case to any type of entity or to a natural person, shall be as valid as if made to or for the benefit of a certain natural person, except such devises or bequests, if any, that have failed or become void by virtue of the seventh section of the Act of the General Assembly passed on April 2, 1839, entitled “an act concerning devises made to schools, academies, and colleges.” Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to give validity to any devise or bequest to or for the use of any unincorporated theological seminary. Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made for literary, educational, or charitable purposes before April 6, 1976, is hereby validated.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1383421,"text":"Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 2, 1839, for literary or educational purposes, and every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 6, 1976, for charitable purposes, whether made in any case to any type of entity or to a natural person, shall be as valid as if made to or for the benefit of a certain natural person, except such devises or bequests, if any, that have failed or become void by virtue of the seventh section of the Act of the General Assembly passed on April 2, 1839, entitled “an act concerning devises made to schools, academies, and colleges.” Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to give validity to any devise or bequest to or for the use of any unincorporated theological seminary. Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made for literary, educational, or charitable purposes before April 6, 1976, is hereby validated.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":52804,"edition_id":2,"name":"General Provisions","identifier":"1","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":52798,"metadata":{"child_laws":5,"child_structures":0},"date_created":"2026-08-02 03:06:07","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:35:47","permalink":{"id":1478529,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":52804,"identifier":"1","token":"57\/2\/1","url":"\/57\/2\/1\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":52798,"edition_id":2,"name":"Church Property; Benevolent Associations and Objects","identifier":"2","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":2,"parent_id":52796,"metadata":{"child_laws":23,"child_structures":3},"date_created":"2026-08-02 03:05:58","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:35:47","permalink":{"id":1478527,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":52798,"identifier":"2","token":"57\/2","url":"\/57\/2\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":52796,"edition_id":2,"name":"Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries","identifier":"57","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":123,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{"child_laws":105,"child_structures":18},"date_created":"2026-08-02 03:05:57","date_modified":"2026-08-02 12:35:46","permalink":{"id":1478503,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":52796,"identifier":"57","token":"57","url":"\/57\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":370787,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-3","catch_line":"Appropriation of glebe lands and church property","url":"\/57-3\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-3","metadata":false},{"id":370821,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-4","catch_line":"Donations to vestries for charitable purposes","url":"\/57-4\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-4","metadata":false},{"id":370825,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-5","catch_line":"R. E. Lee Camp; Pelham Chapel","url":"\/57-5\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-5","metadata":false},{"id":370843,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-6","catch_line":"Lee Memorial Association","url":"\/57-6\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-6","metadata":false},{"id":370842,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-6.1","catch_line":"Validity of literary, educational, and charitable gifts, grants, devises, or bequests","url":"\/57-6.1\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-6.1","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":370843,"structure_id":52804,"section_number":"57-6","catch_line":"Lee Memorial Association","url":"\/57-6\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-6","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/57-6.1\/","history_text":"

This law was first created in 1976. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 546 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 1976 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1478547,"object_type":"law","relational_id":370842,"identifier":"57-6.1","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-6.1","url":"\/57-6.1\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/57-6.1\/","token":"57\/2\/1\/57-6.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Validity of literary, educational, and charitable gifts, grants, devises, or bequests","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 57-6.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 2, 1839, for literary or educational purposes, and every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 6, 1976, for charitable purposes, whether made in any case to any type of entity or to a natural person, shall be as valid as if made to or for the benefit of a certain natural person, except such devises or bequests, if any, that have failed or become void by virtue of the seventh section of the Act of the General Assembly passed on April 2, 1839, entitled “an act concerning devises made to schools, academies, and colleges.” Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to give validity to any devise or bequest to or for the use of any unincorporated theological seminary. Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made for literary, educational, or charitable purposes before April 6, 1976, is hereby validated.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nVALIDITY OF LITERARY, EDUCATIONAL, AND CHARITABLE GIFTS, GRANTS, DEVISES, OR\nBEQUESTS (\u00a7 57-6.1)\n\nEvery gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after April 2, 1839, for\nliterary or educational purposes, and every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made\non or after April 6, 1976, for charitable purposes, whether made in any case to\nany type of entity or to a natural person, shall be as valid as if made to or\nfor the benefit of a certain natural person, except such devises or bequests, if\nany, that have failed or become void by virtue of the seventh section of the Act\nof the General Assembly passed on April 2, 1839, entitled “an act\nconcerning devises made to schools, academies, and colleges.” Nothing in\nthis section shall be construed so as to give validity to any devise or bequest\nto or for the use of any unincorporated theological seminary. Every gift, grant,\ndevise, or bequest made for literary, educational, or charitable purposes before\nApril 6, 1976, is hereby validated.\n\nHISTORY: 1976, c. 546, \u00a7 55-26.1; 2019, c. 712.","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"}}