55-52 - Conveyance of property not owned but subsequently acquired. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-52. Conveyance of property not owned but subsequently acquired.

When a deed purports to convey property, real or personal, describing it withreasonable certainty, which the grantor does not own at the time of theexecution of the deed, but subsequently acquires, such deed shall, as betweenthe parties thereto, have the same effect as if the title which the grantorsubsequently acquires were vested in him at the time of the execution of suchdeed and thereby conveyed.

(Code 1919, § 5202; 1958, c. 424; 1990, c. 831.)