Virginia Code 55.1-105: Same estates may be created by deed as by will
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Any interest in or claim to real estate, including easements in gross, may be transferred by deed or will. Any estate may be made to commence at a future date, by deed, in like manner as by will, and any estate that would be valid as an executory devise or bequest is valid if created by deed.
Terms Used In Virginia Code 55.1-105
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- 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, § 5147; Code 1950, § 55-6; 1962, c. 169; 2019, c. 712.