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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>376862</law_id><section_number>8.01-178.3</section_number><catch_line>Waste for tenant to sell or remove manure from leased premises</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="12" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="5" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="16" identifier="15.1">Waste</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a tenant at will or for years, without a special license to do so, sells or otherwise removes manure made on such leased premises in the ordinary course of husbandry, consisting of (i) ashes leached or unleached; (ii) collections from the stables, barnyard, or cattle pens or other places on the leased premises; or (iii) composts formed by an admixture of any such manure with the soil or other substances, such removal shall be deemed waste for the purposes of the provisions of this article.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5510; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-215; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
