58.1-3944 - Tenant paying taxes or levies to have credit out of rents. - Virginia Statutes

§ 58.1-3944. Tenant paying taxes or levies to have credit out of rents.

A tenant from whom payment is obtained, by distress or otherwise, of taxes orother charges due from a person under whom he holds, shall have credit forthe same against such person out of the rents he may owe him, except when thetenant is bound to pay such taxes or other charges by an express contractwith such person.

(Code 1950, § 58-1013; 1984, c. 675; 2002, c. 64.)