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This law was first created in 1962. 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 3 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 1966, chapter 683; in 1973, chapter 374; in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":67688,"section_number":"55.1-2011","catch_line":"Merger not to bar subsequent condominium","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-2011\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":247063,"object_type":"law","relational_id":74272,"identifier":"55.1-2010","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/3\/55.1-2010","url":"\/55.1-2010\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-2010\/","token":"55.1\/IV\/20\/3\/55.1-2010","dublin_core":{"Title":"Regrouping or merger of estates with principal property","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-2010","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

All of the co-owners<\/span> or such lesser percentage as may be authorized in the master deed<\/span>, or the sole owner of a building constituted into a horizontal property<\/span> regime, may by deed waive<\/span> this regime and regroup, amend<\/span> the master deed<\/span>, or merge the records of the filial estates with the principal property<\/span>, provided that the filial estates are unencumbered, or if they are encumbered, that the creditors<\/span> on whose behalf the encumbrances are recorded accept as security the undivided portions of the property<\/span> owned by the debtors.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREGROUPING OR MERGER OF ESTATES WITH PRINCIPAL PROPERTY (\u00a7 55.1-2010)\n\nAll of the co-owners or such lesser percentage as may be authorized in the\nmaster deed, or the sole owner of a building constituted into a horizontal\nproperty regime, may by deed waive this regime and regroup, amend the master\ndeed, or merge the records of the filial estates with the principal property,\nprovided that the filial estates are unencumbered, or if they are encumbered,\nthat the creditors on whose behalf the encumbrances are recorded accept as\nsecurity the undivided portions of the property owned by the debtors.\n\nHISTORY: 1962, c. 627, \u00a7 9, \u00a7 55-79.9; 1966, c. 683; 1973, c. 374; 2019, c.\n712.","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}}