Chap. 114.—An ACT to validate the title acquired by the purchasers under tax
deeds from the clerks of court, under the provisions of chapter 28 of the
Code of Virginia of 1887, under the provisions of chapter 52 of acts of 1906,
approved February 23, 1906, and under the provisions of chapter 99 of the
Code of Virginia, 1919, and acts amendatory thereof, and to provide a time
within which objections may be made to such deeds, or any entry may be
made on, or an action may be brought to recover the land conveyed by such
deeds. [H B 30]

Approved March 10, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all deeds
heretofore or hereafter made by a clerk of court to a purchaser, under
the provisions of chapter twenty-eight of the Code of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, under chapter fifty-two of acts of nineteen hundred
and six, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six,
under provisions of chapter ninety-nine of the Code of nineteen hun-
dred and nineteen, and acts amendatory thereof, which deeds have
been duly admitted to record in the clerk’s office of the county, or cor-
poration, wherein the land conveyed thereby is located for fifteen years
shall be held, and the same are hereby declared valid in all respects and
for all purposes except as hereinafter provided as to persons under
disability.

2. No former owner, his heirs or assigns shall make an entry on,
or bring an action to recover any land conveyed by such a deed, or
institute any suit to set aside a deed, unless within fifteen years next
after the time such a deed from the clerk of court has been duly
admitted to record. |

3. An infant or insane person who owned land at the time the same
was returned delinquent and sold on account of the default in paying
the taxes and levies assessed thereon, and which land has been conveyed
by a clerk of court by such deed, may redeem the same in accordance
with the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and seventy-nine
and of chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia
within two years after the removal of disability; but in no case shall
the right to redeem be allowed any person after the lapse of twenty
years from the day of such sale.

4. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect or divert
the title of a tenant in reversion or remainder to any real estate which
has been returned delinquent and sold on account of the default of
the tenant for life in paying the taxes or levies assessed thereon, or
to affect or divert the title of a co-ténant, joint-tenant or co-parceners,
where the grantee in such deed is one of the co-tenants, joint-tenants
or co-parceners.

5. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions
hereof are hereby repealed.

6. This act shall be in force on or after the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.