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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56375</law_id><section_number>57-10</section_number><catch_line>How trustees to hold personal property</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="57">Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Church Property; Benevolent Associations and Objects</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Property Held for Religious Purposes</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When personal property shall be given or acquired for the benefit of an unincorporated church or religious body, to be used for its religious purposes, the same shall stand vested in the trustees having the legal title to the land, to be held by them as the land is held, and upon the same trusts or, if the church has created a corporation pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Property of unincorporated church held by corporation" href="/57-16.1/">57-16.1</a>, to be held by it as its land is held, and for the same purposes.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 41; 1962, c. 516; 2005, c. 772.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
