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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 627 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 1962 \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 <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0712\">712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":74064,"section_number":"55.1-2008","catch_line":"Master deed or lease; recordation; particulars","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-2008\/"}],"permalink":{"id":247059,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71979,"identifier":"55.1-2009","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/3\/55.1-2009","url":"\/55.1-2009\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-2009\/","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/3\/55.1-2009","dublin_core":{"Title":"Deeds of individual apartments","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-2009","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The deed of each individual <span class=\"dictionary\">apartment<\/span> shall express the particulars prescribed under subdivisions 1 and 2 of \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Master deed or lease; recordation; particulars\" href=\"\/55.1-2008\/\">55.1-2008<\/a> relative to the <span class=\"dictionary\">apartments<\/span> concerned and shall also express all encumbrances on such <span class=\"dictionary\">apartments<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL APARTMENTS (\u00a7 55.1-2009)\n\nThe deed of each individual apartment shall express the particulars prescribed\nunder subdivisions 1 and 2 of \u00a7 55.1-2008 relative to the apartments concerned\nand shall also express all encumbrances on such apartments.\n\nHISTORY: 1962, c. 627, \u00a7 8, \u00a7 55-79.8; 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}}