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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65329</law_id><section_number>55.1-316</section_number><catch_line>Form of deed of trust to secure debts, etc</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-227</reference><reference>64.2-700</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="I">Property Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Form and Effect of Deeds and Covenants; Liens</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Form and Effect of Deeds of Trust; Sales Thereunder; Assignments; Releases</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A deed of trust to secure debts or indemnify sureties may be in the following form, or to the same effect: &#x201C;This deed, made the ________ day of ______, in the year ____, between ________ (the grantor) and ________ (the trustee), witnesseth: that the said ________ (the grantor) does (or do) grant (or grant and convey) unto the said ________ (the trustee), the following property (here describe it): In trust to secure (here describe the debts to be secured or the sureties to be indemnified and insert covenants or any other provisions the parties may agree upon). <span class="dictionary">Witness</span> the following signature (or signatures).&#x201D;</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5166; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-58; 1990, c. 374; 2014, c. 338; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
