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W. Va. Code § 36-1-21: Alien may own land.
Where this section sits in the code
- CHAPTER 36. ESTATES AND PROPERTY.
- ARTICLE 1. CREATION OF ESTATES GENERALLY.
Any alien may take by devise, inheritance, gift or purchase, and hold, convey, devise or otherwise dispose of land within this state as if he were a citizen, and if an alien owner of land within this state shall die, his land shall descend in the same manner as if he were a citizen.
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