55-14 - Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule in Shelley's Case abolished. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-14. Estate of freehold to one with remainder to heirs, etc.; rule inShelley's Case abolished.

Wherever any person by deed, will or other writing takes an estate offreehold in land, or takes such an estate in personal property as would be anestate of freehold if it were an estate in land, and in the same deed, willor writing an estate is afterwards limited by way of remainder, eithermediately or immediately, to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, or hisissue, the words "heirs," "heirs of his body," and "issue," or otherwords of like import used in the deed, will or writing in the limitationtherein by way of remainder shall not be construed as words of limitationcarrying to such person the inheritance as to the land, or the absoluteestate as to the personal property, but they shall be construed as words ofpurchase, creating a remainder in the heirs, heirs of the body or issue.

(Code 1919, § 5152.)