                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VALIDATION OF CERTAIN TAX DEEDS MADE UNDER REPEALED § 58-1052 OR § 58-1091 (§
58.1-3960)

All deeds heretofore made by a clerk of court to a purchaser under the
provisions of repealed § 58-1052 or § 58-1091 of the Code of Virginia, which
deeds have been recorded for fifteen years or more in the clerk&#8217;s office
of the county or city wherein the land conveyed thereby is located, are hereby
declared to be valid in all respects and for all purposes except as hereinafter
provided as to persons under disability.
		No former owner, his heirs or assigns shall make an entry on or bring an
action to recover any land conveyed by such a deed or institute any suit to set
aside such a deed, except within fifteen years next after the time such a deed
from the clerk of court has been duly admitted to record.
		An infant or insane person who owned land at the time the same was returned
delinquent and sold on account of the default in paying the taxes assessed
thereon, which land has been conveyed by a clerk of court by such deed, may
redeem the same in accordance with the provisions of law within two years after
the removal of disability; but in no case shall the right to redeem be allowed
any person after the lapse of twenty years from the day of such sale.
		Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect or divert the title of a
tenant in reversion or remainder to any real estate which has been returned
delinquent and sold on account of the default of the tenant for life in paying
the taxes assessed thereon or to affect or divert the title of a cotenant, joint
tenant or coparceners, when the grantee in such deed is one of the cotenants,
joint tenants or coparceners.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 58-1026.1; 1974, c. 306; 1984, c. 675.