Effect of disabilities upon right of entry on, or action for, land

Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-237
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Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of § 8.01-229 , no disabilities or tacking of disabilities shall preserve to any person or his successors a right to make entry on or bring an action to recover land for more than twenty-five years after such right first accrued, although such person or persons shall have been disabled during the whole of such twenty-five years. Code 1950, §§ 8-7, 8-8; 1977, c. 617.
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