                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SUITS BY AND AGAINST TRUSTEES (§ 57-11)

Such trustees, and such as are mentioned in §§ 57-21, 57-22, and 57-23, may,
in their own names, sue for and recover any real or personal estate held by them
respectively in trust, or damages for injury thereto, and be sued in relation to
the same. Such suit notwithstanding the death of any of the trustees, or the
appointment of others, shall proceed in the names of the trustees by or against
whom it was instituted.
		In any case where such trustees shall have given any deed of trust, or
encumbered such real or personal estate in any manner to secure any debt, and
such trustees have since died, and such church diocese, religious congregation
or organization has become extinct, or has ceased to occupy the property, so
that it may be regarded as abandoned property, the beneficiary entitled to the
debt secured by such deed of trust or encumbrance, may for the purpose of
subjecting the estate to the payment of such lien, institute a suit in equity in
the circuit court of the county or city in which the property or the greater
part thereof is, against the members of such church diocese or religious
congregation or organization as parties unknown, proceeding by order of
publication as provided by Chapter 8 (§ 8.01-285 et seq.) of Title 8.01.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 42; 1918, p. 409; 1920, p. 9; 1962, c. 516; 2005, c. 772.