Inheritance and succession
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2564 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when partition cannot be made there may be allotment or sale; proceedings in case of sale; how proceedings distributed or invested, and effect of sale on right of dower. |
| An ACT to authorize the board of education to pay Mrs. W. C. Corson any salary due the estate of Wm. C. Corson, late superintendent of schools of Cumberland county. |
| An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Eliza B. Burch, of Petersburg, Va. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2660, code of Virginia, fixing the order in which debts of decedent are to be paid. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2275 of the code of Virginia, in relation to “ how dower may be assigned.” |
| An ACT to impose a tax on collateral inheritances and regulate the collection of same. |
| An ACT to refund to Mary A. Yancey, administratrix of W. L. Yancey, deceased, of Harrisonburg, a certain license tax paid by said W. L. Yancey in his lifetime as an attorney at law. |
| An ACT to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian. |
| An ACT to refund to James M. Habel and George W. Habel taxes erroneously paid by them to the State of Virginia and the county of Bedford. |
| An ACT for the relief of the estate of P. A. Baylor, deceased. |
| An ACT to validate the bequest and devise made by A. H. Wilson to the trustees of Muhlenberg Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Harrisonburg, Virginia. |
| An ACT for the relief of S. C. Williams and E. F. Hodges, of Halifax county. |
| An ACT to release taxes, levies, and charges improperly assessed against the estate of John Kelly, deceased, upon lands in Alleghany county, and returned delinquent for the years 1898, 1899, and 1900. |
| An ACT for the relief of Mrs. R. F. Burks. |
| An ACT to refund to Archer A. Phlegar taxes erroneously paid by him. |
| An ACT to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees by the clerks of circuit courts. |
| An ACT to compensate the heirs of J. J. Moran for services rendered |
| An ACT to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees by the clerks of circuit courts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2636, 2637, 2639, 2640, 2642, 2645, and 2647 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 2644 of said Code as amended and re-enacted by act approved February 12, 1892, entitled “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 3419, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee,” approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an aet entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders,” approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 448 as materiel by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved January 22, 1894, and by an act approved May 20, 1903; section 457 as amended by an act approved January 22, 1894; section 459 as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898; section 492 as amended by an act approved February 24, 1898; section 498 as amended by an act approved January 8, 1898; sections 460, 462, 487, 488, 491, 503, 521, 524, 527, 528, and 532, and to repeal section 472 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2274 of the Code of Virginia, relating to dower. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2552 of the Code, in relation to how bastards take by inheritance, so as to prescribe in what cases the children of former slaves may take by inheritance. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2660 of the Code of Virginia fixing the order in which debts of decedent are to be paid |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills. |
| An ACT to authorize the sale of real estate held as curtesy or as dower, whether the remainder be vested or contingent, and whether the remaindermen be infants or adults. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2917 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 2, 1902, and sections 2621 and 2622 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, so as to authorize and prescribe certain rules governing the leasing of the lands of infants or insane persons, and to repeal section 2617, and to amend and re-enact section 2625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1896. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3630 and 3636 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT providing for payment of State tax by party on whose motion the estate of a decedent is committed to the sheriff of any county or corporation, or the sergeant of the corporation. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 'an act to regulate the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees, by the clerks of circuit courts' |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in reference to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1894, and to amend and re-enact sections 2534 and 2538 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend section 2547 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1898, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2698, 2700, 2702, and 2703 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to confirmation of fiduciary accounts, and the investment, payment, or distribution of money in hands of fiduciary. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2689 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to resignation by fiduciary of his trust. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2708 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to proceedings by legatees or distributees to compel creditors to show cause against distribution of estate, their liability to refund in such case. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2903 and 2904 of the Code of Virginia of 1887. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2690 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to notice to be given by commissioners of accounts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled “an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance and care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments, and other erections, and authorizing cemetery companies and trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift.” |
| An ACT to amend section 2536 of the Code of Virginia relating to the probate of copy of wills, proved without the State; to what extent admitted to probate, and validating the orders of the clerk of any court admitting such wills to probate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2629 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 19, 1903. |
| An ACT to legalize the adoption of adult persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1423 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend an re-enact section 738 of the Code, as amended by an act of the General Assembly of 1902-3-4, approved December 10, 1903. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2418 of the Code of Virginia, concerning disposal of interest in real estate; estates by deed may commence in futuro; and executory limitations. |
| An ACT relating to the grant of letters of administration upon the estates of persons presumed to be dead, by reason of long absence from their former domicile. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2432 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the intervention of a guardian, approved April 2, 1902, in respect to the amount of money that may be paid to the infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution. |
| An ACT to authorize an executor or administrator of a deceased person to execute on behalf of such deceased person a deed to real estate sold by such deceased person during his lifetime under a written contract. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, relating to the appointment of trustees, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee, approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders, approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898. |
| An ACT to authorize recitals in deeds of conveyance executed prior to April, 1865, that the deed from the patentee of the land conveyed to or from his vendees was admitted to record in the general court at Richmond, Virginia, or Frankfort, Kentucky, and authenticated copies of such original deeds to be received as prima facie evidence of the execution of the said deed in suits and actions where the title to the land purported to be conveyed is involved. |
| An ACT to provide for the sale of estates of freehold in land, and such estates in personal property as would be estates of freehold, if they were estates in land, taken by deed, will or other writings, to any person, with limitation therein, by way of remainder to his 'heirs,' or 'heirs of his body,' or 'issue,' or other words of like import, and the investment of the proceeds of such sales for the use and benefit of the person so holding the estate, subject to such limitation. |
| An ACT to provide for the reeordetion of names of the heirs of a person dying intestate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-six hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 7 of an act en- |
| An ACT relative to payment and custody of deposits in two or more names. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 26388 and 2640 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 148 of the acts of 1891-2, approved February 2, 1892 (section 2547-a of Pollard’s Code) entitled 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, (S. B. 408) |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro- |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 the devise of the said real estate without notice to such purchasers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1901, in regard to releases on the margin of record books by clerks of courts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions. |
| An ACT to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration, with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act approved April 16, 1903, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March, 14, 1910. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50S of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to appropriate sums collected hereunder for the payment of pensions and for the support of the public free schools of the primary and grammar grades. |
| An ACT to allow personal representatives and guardians of estates of $100.00 or less, in the discretion of the court, to qualify by giving bond without surety, and to provide that upon the qualification of a personal representative of an estate of a decedent, of $100.00 or less in value, no tax or court cost shall be charged upon such qualification. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact clause 2 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to establish a court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved March 10, 1910. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing cemetery companies and trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 20, 1906. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 492 of chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore umended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 1 and sub-section 5 of section 44 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4125 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5388 and 5389 of the Code |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5787 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to provide for the payment of small amounts into court, and then to the parties entitled to receive the same, without the intervention of any administrator, guardian or committee. |
| An ACT providing when an action of account may be re |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6239 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2307 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5276 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5349 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section No. 5439 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, relating to proceedings by legatees or distributees, to compel creditors to show cause against distribution of estates; their liability to refund in such case. |
| An ACT to authorize and validate the payment of small bank balances and small sums due from employers to next of kin of decedent. |
| An ACT to remove the disability of infancy for the purpose of passing contingent right of curtesy and dower. |
| An ACT validating certain holographic wills admitted to probate |
| An ACT for the appropriation of $500.00 out of the treasury for the payment of J. Taylor Thompson for legal services rendered the State in the matter of contest over the will of Emmett D. Gallion (deceased) |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5379 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend section 5281 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, by adding a new section to be known as section 441%, imposing a tax upon the transfer at death of the personal property of non-residents, and providing penalties for the violation of this section. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5117 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to a widow’s dower. |
| An ACT in relation to a surviving husband’s curtesy. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5264 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5121 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5276 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 21, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections fifty-three hundred and thirty-five and fifty-three hundred and forty of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2307 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 2308 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2307 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5264 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, and section 5266 of the said Code, both in relation to descents. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5379 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 24, 1922. |
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