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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?051+ful+CHAP0935\">935<\/a> 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. 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 2012, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0614\">614<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1501279,"object_type":"law","relational_id":376390,"identifier":"64.2-722","token":"64.2\/III\/7\/4\/64.2-722","url":"\/64.2-722\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/64.2-722\/","token":"64.2\/III\/7\/4\/64.2-722","dublin_core":{"Title":"Trust purposes","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 64.2-722","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A trust may be created only to the extent its purposes are lawful, not contrary to public policy, and possible to achieve. 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