West Virginia Code § 36-2-1

Sale or lease of real or personal property subject to future interests
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Whenever there is, either at law or in equity, in any personal property, or in any land,
timber, oil, gas, coal, or other minerals, any contingent remainder, or any vested remainder,
which is liable to open and let in afterborn children or to open and let in members of any
class, or any executory interest, or executory devise, or any base, qualified, conditional or
limited fee, or any other qualified, conditional, limited or determinable estatee, or interest, it
shall be lawful for the circuit court of the county in which the personal property, land,
timber, oil, gas, coal, or other minerals, or any part thereof, are situater, upon a bill filed by
any of the persons specified in section two of this article, to decree a sale, lease, mining
lease, or other conveyance of such personal property, land, timber, oil, gas, coal, or other
minerals, or any one or more of them, or of any interest in them, as hereinafter provided.

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