Chap. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5465 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to actions, suits and other proceedings in-
volving the title to land embraced in the exterior boundaries of any patent,
deed or other writing which reserves one or more parcels of land from the

operation thereof, and to the proceeds of the sale or condemnation of such
land. [H B 30]

Approved February 15, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
ffty-four hundred and sixty-five of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5465. In any action, suit or other judicial proceeding in-
volving the title to land embraced in the exterior boundaries of any
patent, deed, or other writing, which reserves one or more parcels of
land from the operation of such patent, deed or other writing, if there
be no claim made by a party to the proceeding that the land in con-
troversy, or any part thereof, lies within such reservation, such patent,
deed, or other writing, shall be construed, and shall have the same effect,
as if it contained no such reservation; and if any party to such pro-
ceeding claims that the land in controversy, or any part thereof, lies
within such reservation, the burden shall be upon him to prove the fact,
and all land not shown by a preponderance of the evidence to lie within
such reservation shall be deemed to lie without the same.

This act shall apply in cases involving the right to the proceeds of
any such land when condemned or sold, as well as in cases where the
title to land is directly involved, and shall apply in any case in which
the title to any part of the land, or its proceeds, but for this act, would

or might be in the State.

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