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Statutes > Virginia > Title-55 > Chapter-13 > 55-228§ 55-228. Who may recover rent, etc.
He to whom rent or compensation is due, whether he have the reversion or not,his personal representative or assignee may recover it as provided in §55-227, whatever be the estate of the person owning it, or though his estateor interest in the land be ended. And when the owner of real estate in fee,or holder of a term, yielding him rent, dies, the rent thereafter due shallbe recoverable by such owner's heir or devisee, or such termholder's personalrepresentative. And if the owner or holder alien or assign his estate orterm, or the rent thereafter to fall due thereon, the alienee or assignee mayrecover such rent.
(Code 1919, § 5520.)
