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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77976</law_id><section_number>55.1-338</section_number><catch_line>Release to person dead inures to successors</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="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 release of a deed of trust or a conveyance of the property embraced in such deed of trust may in all cases be made to the original grantor, whether living or dead, and any release or reconveyance so made shall inure both in <span class="dictionary">law</span> and in <span class="dictionary">equity</span> to the successors in title of such grantor.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6456; 1926, p. 82; 1930, p. 71; 1932, p. 121; 1944, p. 199; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-66.2; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
