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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\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 1977, chapter 617.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":81651,"section_number":"55.1-401","catch_line":"Voluntary gifts, conveyances, assignments, transfers, or charges; void as to prior creditors","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-401\/"}],"permalink":{"id":281259,"object_type":"law","relational_id":83274,"identifier":"8.01-253","token":"8.01\/4\/5\/8.01-253","url":"\/8.01-253\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-253\/","token":"8.01\/4\/5\/8.01-253","dublin_core":{"Title":"Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-253","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

No gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, which is not on consideration deemed valuable in law<\/span>, or which is upon consideration of marriage, shall be avoided in whole or in part for that cause only, unless within five years from its recordation, and if not so recorded within five years from the time the same was or should have been discovered, suit<\/span> be brought for that purpose, or the subject thereof, or some part of it, be distrained or levied on by or at the suit<\/span> of a creditor<\/span>, as to whom such gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, is declared to be void by \u00a7 55.1-401<\/a>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nLIMITATION OF SUITS TO AVOID VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES, ETC (\u00a7 8.01-253)\n\nNo gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, which is not on\nconsideration deemed valuable in law, or which is upon consideration of\nmarriage, shall be avoided in whole or in part for that cause only, unless\nwithin five years from its recordation, and if not so recorded within five years\nfrom the time the same was or should have been discovered, suit be brought for\nthat purpose, or the subject thereof, or some part of it, be distrained or\nlevied on by or at the suit of a creditor, as to whom such gift, conveyance,\nassignment, transfer, or charge, is declared to be void by \u00a7 55.1-401.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 8-19; 1977, c. 617.","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}}