Tidewater Area Charities, Inc. v. Harbour Gate Owners Ass'n

This appeal concerns the devolution of title to the land underlying an abandoned street. The dispositive question is whether the land, upon abandonment of the street by the local government, attaches to and becomes a part of an adjacent landowner’s lot. If so, a conveyance of the lot also vests title to this additional area in *224the grantee. If not, the former street remains a separate parcel requiring a separate conveyance.

In 1952, the owners of a tract of land in what was then Princess Anne County, now the City of Virginia Beach, recorded a plat subdividing the tract, called Block I,…