{"id":156,"date":"2021-05-25T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=156"},"modified":"2023-11-27T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:10:34","slug":"reverter-clause-requiring-property-to-be-used-for-church-purposes-not-an-invalid-restraint-on-alienation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2021\/05\/25\/reverter-clause-requiring-property-to-be-used-for-church-purposes-not-an-invalid-restraint-on-alienation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverter clause requiring property to be used for church purposes not an invalid restraint on alienation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Virginia Court held that a future interest requiring forfeiture of title if property was not used to church purposes was a valid possibility of reverter, and was not an invalid or unreasonable restraint on alienation of land.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/virginia\/supreme-court\/2021-200476.pdf?ts=1618492068\">Canova Land &amp; Inv. Co. v. Lynn<\/a><\/strong>, 856 S.E.2d 581 (Va. 2021). The court said that a liberal interpretation should be granted to deeds involving land granted for charitable purposes because limiting property to charitable uses is consistent with public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/estates-and-future-interests\/\" rel=\"tag\">Estates and Future Interests<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/restraints-on-alienation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Restraints on Alienation<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Court held that a future interest requiring forfeiture of title if property was not used to church purposes was a valid possibility of reverter, and was not an invalid or unreasonable restraint on alienation of land.\u00a0Canova Land &amp; Inv. Co. v. Lynn, 856 S.E.2d 581 (Va. 2021). The court said that a liberal interpretation should be granted to deeds involving land granted for charitable purposes because limiting property to charitable uses is consistent with public policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-and-future-interests","category-real-estate-transactions","category-restraints-on-alienation"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}