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This law was first created in 1966. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 683 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. Unfortunately, the 1966 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. 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 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":247037,"object_type":"law","relational_id":86794,"identifier":"55.1-2004","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/2\/55.1-2004","url":"\/55.1-2004\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-2004\/","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/2\/55.1-2004","dublin_core":{"Title":"Partition","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-2004","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> The common elements, both general and limited, shall remain undivided. No apartment<\/span> owner, or any other person<\/span>, shall bring any action or other proceeding for partition<\/span> or division of the co-ownership of the common elements as provided under § 55.1-2007<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as a limitation on partition<\/span> by the owners of one or more apartments<\/span> in a horizontal property<\/span> regime as to the individual ownership of such apartment<\/span> or apartments<\/span> without terminating the regime or as to the ownership of property<\/span> outside the regime, provided that upon partition<\/span> of any such individual apartment<\/span> it shall be sold as an entity and shall not be partitioned in kind. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPARTITION (\u00a7 55.1-2004)\n\nA. The common elements, both general and limited, shall remain undivided. No\napartment owner, or any other person, shall bring any action or other proceeding\nfor partition or division of the co-ownership of the common elements as provided\nunder § 55.1-2007.\n\nB. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as a limitation on\npartition by the owners of one or more apartments in a horizontal property\nregime as to the individual ownership of such apartment or apartments without\nterminating the regime or as to the ownership of property outside the regime,\nprovided that upon partition of any such individual apartment it shall be sold\nas an entity and shall not be partitioned in kind.\n\nHISTORY: 1966, c. 683, \u00a7 55-79.34; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}