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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>375917</law_id><section_number>64.2-1423</section_number><catch_line>Trustee not disqualified due to status as stockholder, employee, or officer of corporate noteholder; sale of property by trustee not voidable</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="136" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="4" identifier="IV">Fiduciaries and Guardians</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="3" identifier="14">Fiduciaries Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="1">Appointment, Qualification, Resignation, and Removal of Fiduciaries</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">fact</span> that a <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> in a deed of trust to secure a debt due to a corporation is a stockholder, member, employee, officer, or director of, or <span class="dictionary">counsel</span> to, the corporation does not disqualify the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> from exercising the powers conferred by the deed of trust, nor does it render voidable a sale by the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by the deed of trust so long as the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> did not participate in the corporation&#x2019;s decision as to the amount to be bid at the sale of the trust property. <a id="paragraph-1403513" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1423/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In addition to the provisions of subsection A, if the lender secured by the deed of trust bids the amount secured, including interest through the date of sale and costs of foreclosure, the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>&#x2019;s participation in fixing the bid price by the lender shall not be deemed improper and the sale shall not be rendered voidable solely by reason of the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>&#x2019;s participation. <a id="paragraph-1403514" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1423/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> All sales made before July 1, 1990, by any <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> by virtue of a deed of trust and any deed made by the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> in pursuance of such sales are hereby declared to be valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid according to <span class="dictionary">laws</span> then in force, the same as if the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> had not been a stockholder, member, employee, officer, or director of, or <span class="dictionary">counsel</span> to, the corporation thereby secured. <a id="paragraph-1403515" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1423/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1920, p. 502; 1932, p. 523; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 6304b; Code 1950, &#xA7; 26-58; 1990, c. 763; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
