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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>369202</law_id><section_number>55.1-111</section_number><catch_line>Fee tail converted into fee simple</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="120" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Property Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Creation and Limitation of Estates</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Creation and Transfer of Estates</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every estate in lands so limited that, as the <span class="dictionary">law</span> was on October 7, 1776, such estate would have been an estate tail shall be deemed an estate in fee simple, and every limitation upon such an estate shall be held valid if the same would be valid when limited upon an estate in fee simple created by technical language.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5150; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-12; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
