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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76171</law_id><section_number>41.1-2</section_number><catch_line>Act changing name of Denny Martin taken as true; records, etc., of Northern Neck and other lands</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="41.1">Land Office</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In all suits, either at <span class="dictionary">law</span> or in <span class="dictionary">equity</span>, in which title to any land is derived or sought to be derived from Lord Fairfax, through Denny Martin Fairfax, it shall not be necessary in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to make out a chain of title, to prove the act of Parliament authorizing Denny Martin, the devisee of Lord Fairfax, to take the name of Fairfax, but the same shall be presumed and taken to be true to the same extent as if a properly authenticated copy of such act had been adduced in <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>.
		The records, documents, and entries of land granted by the former lord proprietor of the Northern Neck, and of all land granted, or to be granted, by the Commonwealth, shall be in the keeping of the Librarian of Virginia in the Land Office in the City of Richmond.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 41-2; 1970, c. 291; 1998, c. 427.</history><metadata><court_decisions><item key="0"><name>McGee v. Russell's Executors</name><case_number></case_number><citation>150 Va. 155</citation><date>1928-03-22</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6921048/mcgee-v-russells-executors/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. Prentis, P., .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Supreme Court of Virginia">SCV</abbr></court_html></item></court_decisions></metadata></law>
