The rents and profits of the property set apart shall be exempt in the same manner as the corpus of such property and if the whole real and personal estate set apart be not of greater value than the amount the householder is entitled to exempt at the time it is so set apart, the exemption thereof shall not be affected by any increase in its value afterwards, unless such increase consists of permanent improvements placed upon real estate set apart by means derived from some source other than exempt property.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 34-18

  • Exempt: means protected from all forms of creditor process. See Virginia Code 34-1
  • Exemption: means protection from all forms of creditor process. See Virginia Code 34-1
  • Householder: means any resident of Virginia. See Virginia Code 34-1
  • Personal estate: includes chattels real and such other estate as, upon the death of the owner intestate, would devolve upon his personal representative. See Virginia Code 1-233
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219

Code 1919, § 6544; 1975, c. 466; 1977, c. 496; 1990, c. 942.

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