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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?051+ful+CHAP0935\">935<\/a> 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. 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 2012, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0614\">614<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":274127,"object_type":"law","relational_id":70374,"identifier":"64.2-704","token":"64.2\/III\/7\/1\/64.2-704","url":"\/64.2-704\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/64.2-704\/","token":"64.2\/III\/7\/1\/64.2-704","dublin_core":{"Title":"Common law of trusts; principles of equity","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 64.2-704","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">common law<\/span> of trusts and principles of <span class=\"dictionary\">equity<\/span> supplement this chapter, except to the extent modified by this chapter or another <span class=\"dictionary\">statute<\/span> of the Commonwealth.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCOMMON LAW OF TRUSTS; PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY (\u00a7 64.2-704)\n\nThe common law of trusts and principles of equity supplement this chapter,\nexcept to the extent modified by this chapter or another statute of the\nCommonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 2005, c. 935, \u00a7 55-541.06; 2012, c. 614.","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}}