8.01-146 - When vendee, etc., entitled to conveyance of legal title, vendor cannot recover. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-146. When vendee, etc., entitled to conveyance of legal title, vendorcannot recover.

A vendor, or any claiming under him, shall not, at law any more than inequity, recover against a vendee, or those claiming under him, lands sold bysuch vendor to such vendee, when there is a writing, stating the purchase andthe terms thereof, signed by the vendor or his agent and there has been suchpayment or performance of what was contracted to be paid or performed on thepart of the vendee, as would in equity entitle him, or those claiming underhim, to a conveyance of the legal title of such land from the vendor, orthose claiming under him, without condition.

(Code 1950, § 8-816; 1977, c. 617.)