                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VALIDATION OF CERTAIN SALES MADE UNDER DEEDS OF TRUST (§ 55.1-333)

All sales that have been made prior to January 1, 1972, under deeds of trust to
secure debts and indemnify sureties containing a provision requiring the giving
of notice of sale thereunder for a specified number of days by advertisement in
one or more newspapers and that were made after publishing the advertisement of
sale in a newspaper published daily or in a newspaper published daily except
Sunday for the number of days specified in the deed of trust, counting both the
day of the first publication and the day of the last publication and intervening
Sundays, whether or not such paper was published on Sunday and whether or not
such sales were held on the day of the last publication, provided that, in cases
when the sale was held on the day of the last publication, the publication was
in a newspaper the principal daily edition of which was delivered or publicly
sold before the time fixed for the sale, and whether or not the first
publication or the last publication, or both, appeared on Sunday, shall be held,
and the same are hereby declared, to be valid and effective in all respects, if
otherwise valid and effective according to the law then in force, provided,
however, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed as affecting
any final order entered prior to March 24, 1934, by any court of competent
jurisdiction or as affecting any action now pending in any court of competent
jurisdiction, and provided further, that nothing in this section shall be so
construed as to affect intervening vested rights.

HISTORY: 1934, p. 257; Michie Code 1942, § 5167b; Code 1950, § 55-65; 1975, c.
284; 2019, c. 712.