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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71852</law_id><section_number>56-12</section_number><catch_line>Works and property sold under court decree subject to provisions of three preceding sections</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>56-616</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Foreclosure Sales and Dissolution</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The works and property of a <span class="dictionary">public service corporation</span> sold under a <span class="dictionary">decree</span> of a <span class="dictionary">court</span> having competent <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> shall be held by the purchaser thereof subject to all the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Sale of public service corporation under deed of trust; how purchaser may form new corporation" href="/56-9/">56-9</a> through <a class="law" title="Debts and claims against corporation so sold" href="/56-11/">56-11</a>, so far as the same may be applicable to such a sale.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 3898.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
