When personal property shall be given or acquired for the benefit of an unincorporated church or religious body, to be used for its religious purposes, the same shall stand vested in the trustees having the legal title to the land, to be held by them as the land is held, and upon the same trusts or, if the church has created a corporation pursuant to § 57-16.1, to be held by it as its land is held, and for the same purposes.
Va. Code Ann. § 57-10
How trustees to hold personal property
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In re Multi-Circuit Episcopal Church Property Litigation (2012)
Most recently applied in In re Multi-Circuit Episcopal Church Property Litigation (January 2012)
Code 1919, § 41; 1962, c. 516; 2005, c. 772.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.