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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86748</law_id><section_number>55.1-1503</section_number><catch_line>Encumbrance on real property</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="III">Rental Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Residential Ground Rent Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">residential ground rent</span> shall constitute a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> against the real estate from the time it is recorded. Any deed of trust or mortgage may provide that a <span class="dictionary">default</span> in payment of ground rent shall constitute a <span class="dictionary">default</span> in such deed of trust or mortgage, that the trustee or beneficiary of the deed of trust or mortgage may satisfy such obligation for rent, and that the money used to satisfy such obligation, along with interest, shall be a part of the debt secured, to be repaid as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How deed of trust construed; duties, rights, etc., of parties" href="/55.1-320/">55.1-320</a> et seq.</p></section></text><history>1975, c. 363, &#xA7; 55-79.04; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
