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Volume | 1893/1894 |
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Law Number | 418 |
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Chap. 418.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1406 of the code of Vir-
ginia, 1887, in relation to the sale or encumbering of lands belonging to
churches, &c.
Approved February 27, 1894.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fourteen hundred ‘and six of the code of Virginia, in relation to
the sale or encumbering of lands belonging to churches, and so forth,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 1406. The trustees of such congregation may file their petition
in the circuit court of the county or the circuit or corporation court
of the corporation wherein the land, or the greater part thereof, held
by them as trustees lies, or before the judge of said court in vaca-
tion, asking leave to sell, encumber or exchange the said land, or a
part thereof; and upon evidence being produced before the court, or
the judge thereof in vacation, that it is the wish of said congregation
to sell, exchange or encumber the said property, the court, or the
judge thereof in vacation, shall make such order as may be proper
providing for the sale of such land, or a part, or that the same may
be exchanged or encumbered, and, in case of sale, for the proper
investment of the proceeds. And when any such religious congre-
gation has become extinct or has ceased to occupy said property as
a place of worship, so that it may be regarded as abandoned prop-
erty, the petition may be presented either by the surviving trustee
or trustees, should there be any, by any one or more member or
members of said congregation, should there be any, or by the reli-
gious body which, by the laws of the church or denomination to
which said congregation belonged, has the charge or custody of said
property, or in which it may be vested by the laws of said church or
denomination ; and the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall
make a decree for the sale of said property and the disposition of
its proceeds in accordance with the law of said denomination; and
the printed acts of said church or denomination issued by its au-
thority, embodied in book or pamphlet form, shall be taken and
regarded as the law and acts of said denomination or religious body.
The court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may make such order as
to the costs in all these proceedings as may seem proper.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.