Chap. 163.—An ACT to provide that, in any suit or action in which the title
to any lot which was sold, and conveyed to the purchaser, by the trustees of
the town of Lovingstown, under the provisions: of “An act establishing a
town on the lands of James Loving, in the county of Nelson’, passed January
24, 1809, is brought in question, proof of the continuous actual possession
of said lot by the claimants thereof, under color of title or claim of right,
through a period of at least fifty years shall raise a prima facie presumption
that the building requirements of said act, or of a certain act amendatory
thereof, were complied with. [TH B 438]

Approved March 15, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That in
any suit or action in which the title to any lot which was sold, and
conveyed to the purchaser, by the trustees of the town of Lovingstown,
under the provisions of an act entitled an act establishing a town on
the lands of James Loving, in the county of Nelson, passed January
twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and nine, is brought in question,
proof of the continuous actual possession of said lot by the claimants
thereof, under color of title or claim of right, through a period of at
least fifty years, shall raise a prima facie presumption that the re-
quirement of said act with reference to the building on such lot of
a dwelling house with a chimney, was complied with within the time
prescribed by said act, or by an act amendatory thereof, passed Janu-
ary eleventh, eighteen hundred and fourteen,