55-2 - When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition or gift valid. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-2. When deed or will necessary to convey estate; no parol partition orgift valid.

No estate of inheritance or freehold or for a term of more than five years inlands shall be conveyed unless by deed or will, nor shall any voluntarypartition of lands by coparceners, having such an estate therein, be made,except by deed; nor shall any right to a conveyance of any such estate orterm in land accrue to the donee of the land or those claiming under him,under a gift or promise of gift of the same not in writing, although suchgift or promise be followed by possession thereunder and improvement of theland by the donee or those claiming under him.

(Code 1919, § 5141.)