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Statutes > Virginia > Title-55 > Chapter-13 > 55-220§ 55-220. What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornmentunnecessary.
In conveyances or devises of rents in fee, with powers of distress andreentry, or either of them, such powers shall pass to the grantee or deviseewithout express words. A grant or devise of a rent, or of a reversion orremainder, shall be good and effectual without attornment of the tenant; butno tenant who, before notice of the grant, shall have paid the rent to thegrantor shall suffer any damage thereby.
(Code 1919, § 5514.)
