Inheritance and succession
| An ACT to Prescribe in What Manner and on What Conditions a Householder or Head of a Family shall Set Apart and Hold a Homestead and Personal Property, for Benefit of Himself and Family, Exempt from Sale for Debt. |
| An ACT to Incorporate the Louisa Cemetery Association. |
| An ACT Imposing Taxes for the Support of Government and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 82 of Chapter 182 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Payment of Money and Delivery of Property in the Hands of Fiduciaries. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 25 of Chapter 1380 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Order in which Debts against De-cedents shall be Paid. |
| An ACT to Amend Section 3 of Chapter 129 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Transfer of Property of Ward to Another State. |
| An ACT Concerning the Estate of Uriah P. Levy, the Management of the same by the Board of Education, and for Other Purposes. |
| An ACT for the Relief of Wm. W. Cosby, Executor of R. Payne. |
| An ACT to Amend Section 8 of Chapter 124 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Partition of Lands. |
| An ACT to exempt the Homesteads of Families from forced Sales. |
| An Act Imposing Taxes for the Support of Government. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Recovery of Damages when Death is Caused by the Wrongful Act, Neglect, er Default of Another. |
| An ACT for the Relief of Robert J. Echols, Guardian of Lewis P., Sterling C., and Susan V. London. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 12, Chapter 186 of the Code of Virginia, in Regard to Writs of Scire Facias. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 12, Chapter 130 of the Code of 1860, in Regard to Personal Representatives. |
| An ACT to Expedite the Execution of the Will of William Barrett, deceased. |
| An ACT Providing for New Grants where Title Papers are Lost or Destroyed. |
| An ACT for the Relief of W. R. Vaughan and W. T. Smith Executors of W. S. Smith, Deceased. |
| An ACT Imposing Taxes for the Support of the Governme and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Public Debt. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section fourteen of Chapter one hundred and thirty of the Code of 1860, as Amended, in Relation to Property not to be Sold by Personal Representative. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Guardian of John P. Boyd, ai Infant, to Convey certain Real Estate belonging to said Infant in th: State of Alabama. |
| An ACT to Enable the Trustees of Mount Tabor Church, in Augusta County, and their Successors in Office, to receive and hold a Bequest under the will of Margaret Cale, deceased, |
| An ACT for the Relief of the Representatives of William Debusk, deceased, as one of the Sureties of Leonidas Love, Executor of Solomon G. Barrick, deceased. |
| An ACT for the relief of Sarah F. Gayle, of the city of Portsmouth, |
| An ACT for the Relief of Joel L. Walker, Administrator of the Estate of David Bruce, deceased. |
| An ACT to Authorize the Circuit Court of the County of Pulaski to Decree and Confirm a Sale of Certain Real Estate of Mrs. S. McG. Buford and Children. |
| An ACT Providing for the Sale of Certain Estate Devised and Bequeathed by William A. Christian, Deceased. |
| An ACT for the Relief of the Estate of William M. Hume, deceased, late Sheriff of Fauquier, and his Sureties. |
| An ACT Authorizing the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond, to permit the Last Will of Charles Liston Brown, to be Withdrawn from the Clerk’s Office of said Court. |
| An ACT for the Assessment, Levy and Collection of Taxes. |
| An ACT to release to the heirs of Frederick Devis Haroth, the Commonwealth’s right to certain Real Estate of which he died seized, upon proof of Heirship and Irregularity of Proceedings to Escheat. |
| An ACT to give Effect to a Compromise of the Litigation in Respect to the Construction and Effect of the Will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to Establish the Manual Labor School provided for in the Twenty-fifth Clause of said Will. |
| An ACT to exempt the Property of the Husband or Wife from the Ante-Nuptial Debts of the other. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed April 29, 1874, to release the Commonwealth’s claim to certain real estate to heirs of Frederick David Haroth. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Courts of the Counties of Charles City and Albemarle, which have charge of the Marriage License Bond of Thomas Jefferson, and the Will of Thaddeus Kosciusko, to transfer those Documents to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, for preservation among the Historical Documents in the State Library. |
| An ACT to pay Henry R. Pollard, Attorney for Archibald Adie, Marion Dawson, and John W. Wright, Sheriff and Administrator of Helen Lennox, deceased, the amount of a Judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-seven, Chapter one hundred and eighteen, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in regard to the Recordation of Wills. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourteenth, twentieth, forty-fourth and fifty-sixth sections of an act entitled an act prescribing general provisions in relation to commissioners of the revenue, and the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c. |
| An ACT to amend the second section of an Act to Exempt the Property of the Husband or Wife from the Ante-Nuptial Debts of the other |
| An ACT to revise and amend the Charter of The Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Jennings association of the United States of America. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12 of chapter 128 of the Code of Virginia, 1873, providing for recordation of fiduciary accounts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 22, chapter 172, of the Code of 1873, in relation to parties to suits testifying in certain cases. |
| An ACT to expedite the execution of the will of Lawson Nunnally, deceased. |
| An ACT to provide for a general index to deeds, wills, and fiduciary accounts, in counties or corporations that have not been supplied. |
| An ACT releasing to Mary A. E. Dangerfield the commonwealth’s right to certain real and personal estate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Ist and 4th clauses of section 1 of the act to give effect to a compromise of the litigation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the Manual Labor school provided for in the 25th clause of said will. |
| An ACT securing to married women, on conditions, all property acquired by them before or after marriage. |
| An ACT for the reliefof the heirs of Harvey West, deceased, of Rockingham county. |
| An ACT to authorize Mrs. Harriet N. Dunn to convey real estate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the ninth section of chapter 146, of the Code of 1878, to the right of action on bonds of fiduciaries. |
| An ACT to establish a rule and table for computing the value of a life estate for annuity. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act approved April 4th, 1877, entitled an act securing to married women, on conditions, all property acquired by them before or after marriage, so as to more clearly define the courtesy and dower rights. |
| An ACT for the relief of the conference of St. Mary of the society of St. Vincent of Paul, in the city of Alexandria, and to rescribe the basis upon which the collateral inheritance tax shall be assessed and charged to said conference, on certain property devised to it. |
| An ACT for the relief of the heirs of James Baynes and John B. Baynes, deceased, late of the firm of James Baynes and Son, of Baltimore, Maryland. |
| An ACT for the relief of the administrator of Reese B. Gillespie, deceased. |
| An ACT for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, and licenses, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt. |
| An ACT to create the Barrack Institute in the county of Washington. |
| An ACT for the Relief of Matthew Sylvia |
| An ACT for the relief Catharine Corbin of Pittsylvania County. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 127 of the Code of 18738, as to liability of heirs of devisees for debts of dece- dents. |
| An ACT releasing to the University of Virginia and the Female Charity School of Fredericksburg, any claim of the commonwealth to collateral inheritance tax on bequests in the will of Douglas H. Gordon, deceased. |
| An ACT to accept the provisions under the will of Lizzie H. Taylor, deceased, to designate the same as the Hoge School Fund of Loudoun county, and to dispose of the same for the education of the indigent children of said county. |
| An ACT to repeal the collateral inheritance tax. |
| JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the auditor of public accounts to revoke the appointment of collector of delinquent tax in arrear and collateral inheritance tax. |
| An ACT to amend the 18 section of chapter 126 of the Code of 1878, in relation to assets in hands of personal representatives. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7, chapter 36, Code of 1878, in relation to collateral inheritance tax and mode of its collection. |
| An Act for the relief of the heirs of Martha C. Ball |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 38, chapter 128 of the Code of 1873, limiting the time to one year for creditors to show cause against distribution of estates. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34, chapter 118, Code of 1878, limiting the time for contesting wills to two years. |
| An ACT to enable Mary Ann Bruton and Alfred Shields, her trustee, to sell certain property. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 120 |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one hundred and twelve, six hundred and thirty-three, six hundred and seventy-four, two thousand five hundred and thirty-three, three thousand and forty-five, three thousand and fifty-three, three thousand and ninety-three, three thousand and ninety-one, three thousand four hundred and fifty-five, three thousand four hundred and ninety-two, four thousand and forty-eight, and four thousand and forty-nine of the act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of Ye common eat ap paved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February, |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment of assistant commissioners of accounts, and to define their duties and powers. |
| An ACT to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate for value from the heir at law of a decedent against a devise of the said real estate without notice to such purchaser. |
| An ACT to legalize the adoption of minor children |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2644 of the code of Virginia, in regard to the marriage of a female personal representative. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2597 of the code of Virginia, in regard to testamentary guardians. |
| An ACT authorizing the trustees under the will of C. H. Lynch, deceased, to borrow money to make permanent improvements. |
| An ACT to dedicate and convey all right and title of the state in certain lots situated in Bedford City, Virginia, to parties to whom same have been heretofore conveyed. |
| An ACT to quiet titles to real estate in the commonwealth. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2588 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend certain sections of the code |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2906 of the code of Virginia, with respect to the survival of the right of action to the plaintiff’s representatives in actions for tort when the plaintiff dies pending the action. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2547 of the code providing for the recordation of wills. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 492 of the code of Virginia ; by whom property is to be listed ; to whom taxed. |
| An ACT for the relief of the Sheltering arms hospital from collateral inheritance tax, under bequests made said hospital by the late James H. Farish and Elizabeth C. Waller, and to relieve the Woman’s Christian association and the Virginia hospital from the collateral inheritance tax under bequests made said association and said Virginia hospital by the late Elizabeth C. Waller. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section Poof an act entitled ‘ An act to impose a tax on collateral inheritances, and regulate the collection of same, approved February 14, 186 |
| An ACT to relieve certain legatees and devisees of Miss Mary J. Baldwin, of Staunton, from the operation of the act approved February 14, 1896, imposing a tax on collateral inheritances. |
| An ACT to validate the bequest and devise made by Gideon Koiner, of Shenandoah county, to Dr. W. P. Crickenburger, Rev. J. S. Koiner, Newton G. Moore, D. F. Kagey, and C. W. Bennick, trustees, for the use and benefit of Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran church, a religious congregation worshipping in the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of the code of Virginia |
| An ACT in relation to the property rights of married women, declaring how they may acquire and dispose of property; make contracts, sue and be sued; and to amend sections 2291, 2293, 2294, and 2296, chapter 103 of the code of Virginia; and to repeal sections 2284, 2285, 2286, 2287, oe hance i 2292, and 2295 as amended by acts of 1895 and 1896 on page |
| An ACT for the relief of the personal representative and estate of William M. Flanagan. |
| An ACT for the relief of Benjamin D. Long’s estate from certain delinquent taxes. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 (relating to tax on wills and administration) of an act approved March 6, 1890, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is necessary. |
| An ACT to relieve Mary M. Smith from taxes improperly assessed against 117 acres of land in Henry district, in Hanover county, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend section 2513 of the code of Virginia, in relation to who may not make wills, with a saving as to infants of eighteen years of age, or upwards. |
| An ACT to authorize and empower Mrs. Laura C. Webb-Peploe to dispose of certain real estate and to make valid title thereto. |
| An ACT enabling the personal representative of Sallie H. Kramer to pay certain moneys to the trustees of the Christian church in Strasburg, Virginia, under provisions of her will. |
Copyright © 2025 by the Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia