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SENATE BILL NO. 1400 Offered January 14, 2009 Prefiled January 14, 2009 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8.01-179.1, relating to a rebuttable presumption in establishing boundaries of land. ---------- Patron-- Ticer ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 8.01-179.1 as follows:

§ 8.01-179.1. Rebuttable presumption in establishing boundaries of land.

In a proceeding under this article in which a plaintiff seeks to prove that he had a perfect legal title to the land in dispute by showing an unbroken chain of title to a common source of title, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that conveyances from the same grantor of separate, adjoining tracts of land constitute a common source of title.