                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONVEYANCE FROM MARRIED PERSONS; EFFECT ON RIGHT OF EITHER SPOUSE (§ 55.1-205)

When persons married to each other have signed and delivered a writing
purporting to convey any estate, real or personal, such writing, whether
recorded or not, shall (i) if delivered prior to January 1, 1991, operate to
convey from the spouse her right of dower or his right of curtesy in the real
estate embraced in such writing and (ii) if delivered after December 31, 1990,
operate to manifest the spouse&#8217;s written consent or joinder, as
contemplated in § 64.2-305 or 64.2-308.9 to the transfer embraced in such
writing. In either case, the writing passes from such spouse and his
representatives all right, title, and interest of every nature that at the date
of such writing he may have in any estate conveyed thereby as effectually as if
he were at such date an unmarried person. If, in either case, the writing is a
deed conveying a spouse&#8217;s land, no covenant or warranty in such land on
behalf of the other spouse joining in the deed shall operate to bind him any
further than to convey his interest in such land, unless it is expressly stated
that such spouse enters into such covenant or warranty for the purpose of
binding himself personally.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5211; Code 1950, § 55-41; 1977, c. 147; 1990, c. 831;
1991, c. 625; 1992, cc. 617, 647; 2016, cc. 187, 269; 2019, c. 712.