55-321 - Requirements for agreement to bind successors in title; subsequent owners. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-321. Requirements for agreement to bind successors in title; subsequentowners.

No agreement made between adjoining landowners, with respect to theconstruction or maintenance of the division fence between their lands, shallbe binding on their successors in title, unless it be in writing andspecifically so state, and be recorded in the deed book in the clerk's officeof the county in which the land is located, and properly indexed as deeds arerequired by law to be indexed.

If any notice, as required by § 55-318 or § 55-319 is recorded in the deedbook in the clerk's office of the county in which the land is located and isproperly indexed as deeds are required by law to be indexed, then anysubsequent owners of such land shall be liable for any sum which may be duepursuant to § 55-320.

(Code 1950, § 8-891; 1977, c. 624; 1985, c. 486.)