# Article 1 Creation and Transfer of Estates

This article is comprised of the following sections:

- §55.1-100 Aliens may acquire, hold, and transmit real estate; when reciprocity required
- §55.1-101 When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid
- §55.1-102 When gift of personal property invalid
- §55.1-103 Suicide or attainder of felony
- §55.1-104 Estates to lie in grant as well as in livery
- §55.1-105 Same estates may be created by deed as by will
- §55.1-106 Power of disposal in life tenant not to defeat remainder unless exercised; power of disposal held by fiduciary
- §55.1-107 Default or surrender of tenant for life not to prejudice remainderman
- §55.1-108 Conveyance of estate or interest in property by grantor to himself and another
- §55.1-109 Deed valid for grantor’s right; operation of warranty
- §55.1-110 Conveyance, devise, or grant without words of limitation
- §55.1-111 Fee tail converted into fee simple
- §55.1-112 Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley’s Case abolished
- §55.1-113 Doctrine of worthier title abolished
- §55.1-114 When contingent remainder not to fail
- §55.1-115 When remainders not defeated
- §55.1-116 In what conveyances possession transferred to the use
- §55.1-117 Land trusts not to fail because no beneficiaries are specified by name and no duties laid on trustee; when interest of beneficiaries deemed personal property; liens
- §55.1-118 Deed of release effectual
- §55.1-119 When person not a party, etc., may take or sue under instrument
- §55.1-120 Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact
- §55.1-121 Time for objections to irregularities in advertising sales made by trustees
- §55.1-122 Recovery at death of life tenant of taxes paid on life estate
- §55.1-123 Removal of a cloud on title; nature of plaintiff’s title