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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83274</law_id><section_number>8.01-253</section_number><catch_line>Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc</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="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="5">Miscellaneous Limitations Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, which is not on consideration deemed valuable in <span class="dictionary">law</span>, or which is upon consideration of marriage, shall be avoided in whole or in part for that cause only, unless within five years from its recordation, and if not so recorded within five years from the time the same was or should have been discovered, <span class="dictionary">suit</span> be brought for that purpose, or the subject thereof, or some part of it, be distrained or levied on by or at the <span class="dictionary">suit</span> of a <span class="dictionary">creditor</span>, as to whom such gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, is declared to be void by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Voluntary gifts, conveyances, assignments, transfers, or charges; void as to prior creditors" href="/55.1-401/">55.1-401</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-19; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
