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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58223</law_id><section_number>6.2-917</section_number><catch_line>Execution of powers of sale by receivers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-886</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Banks</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="13">Receiverships</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> When any receiver is appointed under the provisions of this article for any <span class="dictionary">bank</span> authorized to do a trust business or for any trust company, the receiver may be empowered by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> by which he is appointed: <a id="paragraph-213359" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-917/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> To act for and on behalf of such <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or trust company in the execution of any power of sale conferred upon such <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or trust company by any instrument; <a id="paragraph-213360" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-917/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> When such sale is made, to execute, acknowledge and deliver for and on behalf of such <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or trust company such deed as may be proper under the provisions of such instrument for the conveyance of title to the property conveyed therein; and <a id="paragraph-213361" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-917/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Upon payment of the amount secured under any such instrument, to execute, acknowledge, and deliver for and on behalf of such <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or trust company a proper release deed for the property conveyed therein. <a id="paragraph-213362" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-917/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any such sale made by such receiver and any such deed or release executed by him, when so authorized and empowered, shall be as effective and as binding as if the same had been made or executed by such <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or trust company before the appointment of such receiver. <a id="paragraph-213363" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-917/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> All sales that have been made by any such receivers within the Commonwealth, and all such deeds and release deeds that have been executed by any such receivers within the Commonwealth under the authority of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> by which they were appointed, since June 19, 1936, shall be as effective and as binding as if the same had been made by such <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or trust company before the appointment of such receiver. <a id="paragraph-213364" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-917/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-117; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-103; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
