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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70723</law_id><section_number>8.01-237</section_number><catch_line>Effect of disabilities upon right of entry on, or action for, land</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>28.2-1512</reference><reference>8.01-229</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Limitations of Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Limitations on Recovery of Realty and Enforcement of Certain Liens Relating to Realty</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Suspension or tolling of statute of limitations; effect of disabilities; effect of death; injunction; prevention of service by defendant; dismissal, nonsuit or abatement; devise for payment of debts; new promises; debts proved in creditors' suits" href="/8.01-229/">8.01-229</a>, no disabilities or tacking of disabilities shall preserve to any <span class="dictionary">person</span> or his successors a right to make entry on or bring an <span class="dictionary">action</span> to recover land for more than twenty-five years after such right first accrued, although such <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">persons</span> shall have been disabled during the whole of such twenty-five years.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 8-7, 8-8; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
