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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58160</law_id><section_number>55.1-120</section_number><catch_line>Informalities in deeds made by attorneys-in-fact</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="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Property Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Creation and Limitation of Estates</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Creation and Transfer of Estates</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If, in a deed made by one as <span class="dictionary">attorney-in-<span class="dictionary">fact</span></span> for another, the words of conveyance or the signature is in the name of the attorney, it is as much the principal&#x2019;s deed as if the words of conveyance or the signature were in the name of the principal by the attorney, if it is manifest on the face of the deed that it should be construed to be that of the principal to give effect to its <span class="dictionary">intent</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5145; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-23; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
