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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58637</law_id><section_number>55.1-2807</section_number><catch_line>Statutes declaring watercourses lawful fences continued</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-2810</reference></referred_to_by><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="V">Miscellaneous</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="28">Trespasses; Fences</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">What Constitutes Lawful Fence</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All acts declaring any river, stream, or watercourse, or any part thereof, or any boundary in any county, a lawful fence, or authorizing any <span class="dictionary">court</span> so to declare the same, or enacting a special fence <span class="dictionary">law</span> for any county or any part thereof, and all acts relating to the making or repairing of division fences in any county or in any part thereof that may be in force on the day before the Code of 1887 took effect, shall continue in force.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-873; 1977, c. 624, &#xA7; 55-303; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
