A Prince William County Circuit Court grants a woman possession of her home, free of the $1.1 million in liens her husband placed on the home, as she is the innocent victim of her husband, who is in default and ...

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Although a commercial lessor’s lease administrator initially agreed with tenant Cost Plus that a shopping center lease required a new tenant as a replacement for Linens N’ Things, an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the plain language of the lease ...

Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A man who still occupies his home after its sale at foreclosure gets nowhere with his claim to the property based on the legal theory that securitization of his mortgage loan renders his note unenforceable, and an Alexandria U.S. District ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirms a trial court holding that a cemetery cannot be established without the burial of a dead body. The ashes of the family patriarch were scattered on a scenic hilltop in 1949, and the family ...

Tagged with: Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A 1909 agreement and deed conveyed a fee simple interest and not just a right of way to Norfolk & Western Railway Company, the Supreme Court of Virginia rules in affirming the lower court’s rejection of a property owner’s claim ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia rules that a 60-foot wide ingress and egress easement must be interpreted by its terms and reverses a lower court ruling that denied injunctive relief because the essential purpose of the easement had been met. ...

Tagged with: Justice Donald W. Lemons Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

Because an underground sewer pipe was not physically apparent and the servient landowner had no notice of the existence of the pipe, the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a trial court holding that an adjacent landowner had an easement by ...

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For those of you who suspect that the Supreme Court of Virginia has never seen an easement dispute that it didn’t think merited its attention, we have three more examples today. One, Hafner v. Hansen, involves what seems to be ...

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For those of you who suspect that the Supreme Court of Virginia has never seen an easement dispute that it didn’t think merited its attention, we have three more examples today. One, Hafner v. Hansen, involves what seems to be ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia split 4-3 today on the issue of just what constitutes a cemetery. In a case from Rockingham County, the lower court and the Supreme Court majority held that a site can’t be a cemetery without ...

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