55-55 - Validation of sales, etc., by county courts prior to 1860. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-55. Validation of sales, etc., by county courts prior to 1860.

All sales or leases made prior to the year 1860, by the county court, orcourt of monthly session, of any county, of any land or building then ownedby such county and situated within the limits of land previously acquired bysuch county as a site for its courthouse and other public buildings, when theconsideration therefor has been fully paid and the purchaser, or lessee asthe case may be, and those claiming through or under him, shall have heldcontinuous possession of such land or building from January 1, 1860, untilJanuary 1, 1934, are hereby validated and declared to be forever binding uponsuch county.

(1934, p. 311; Michie Code 1942, § 5183b.)