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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57623</law_id><section_number>55.1-2825</section_number><catch_line>Requirements for agreement to bind successors in title; subsequent owners</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="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="6">Division Fences</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No agreement made between adjoining landowners, with respect to the construction or maintenance of the division fence between their lands, shall be binding on their successors in title unless it (i) is in writing and specifically so state, (ii) is recorded in the deed book in the clerk&#x2019;s office of the county in which the land is located, and (iii) is properly indexed as deeds are required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be indexed.
		If any notice, as required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="When no division fence has been built" href="/55.1-2822/">55.1-2822</a> or <a class="law" title="When division fence already built" href="/55.1-2823/">55.1-2823</a> is recorded in the deed book in the clerk&#x2019;s office of the county in which the land is located and is properly indexed as deeds are required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be indexed, then any subsequent owners of such land shall be liable for any sum that may be due pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recovery of amount due in connection with division fence" href="/55.1-2824/">55.1-2824</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-891; 1977, c. 624, &#xA7; 55-321; 1985, c. 486; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
