55-251 - Compensation to outgoing tenant for preparation of land for crop. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-251. Compensation to outgoing tenant for preparation of land for crop.

If any land has been prepared by the tenant previous to the expiration of thelease, for the purpose of putting a crop into the ground, under suchcircumstances as would have entitled the tenant, or his personalrepresentative, to emblements, if the crop had been put in, those who succeedto the land shall pay a reasonable compensation for such preparation.

(Code 1919, § 5542.)