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Inheritance and succession

1924
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4148 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.
An ACT to provide for the distribution in chancery causes, upon the giving of a refunding bond, of estate to which a person other than the distributee or distributees may be entitled if alive.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5242 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5117 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922, in relation to a widow's dower.
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, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, and to provide additional compensation for the auditor of public accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in relation to a surviving husband’s curtesy, approved March 28, 1922.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of YS S133
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5321 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5161 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1923.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5420 and 5423 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5125 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the assignment of dower.
An ACT to direct the State tax board to make a study of the income and inheritance tax system of the Federal government and of the several States and to make such recommendations to the general assembly at its next session as may lead to the improvement of the income tax system of this
An ACT to provide that no non-resident of this State shall be appointed or allowed to qualify as personal representative, guardian or committee of a resident decedent, infant or person non compos mentis, unless there be appointed also a resident personal representative, guardian or committee.

1926
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5349 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 7, 1922, and to repeal section 5348 of the Code, in relation to the transfer of property in this State belonging to non-resident decedents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6562 of the Code of Virginia, which said section is in chapter 274 of the said Code, on the subject of exemption of property of householder.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5273 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the distribution of personal estate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5281 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 27, 1922, in relation to partition of lands.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section to be numbered section 5133-a, which new section relates to the commutation of certain life estates.
An ACT to provide that in any case in which under the laws of this State provision is made for commutation in money of a life estate where all the parties interested are under no disability, such provisions shall also apply where any of the parties interested are under disability.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the Tax Bill by adding a new section prescribing a minimum amount of taxes upon the transfer at death of the estate of resident decedents.

1928
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the payment of money to infants entitled thereto, or their parents by courts without the intervention of a guardian.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5379 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to list to be furnished by personal representatives.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5349 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 540 of the acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, in relation to transfer of property in this State belonging to non-resident decedents.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5947 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of the court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 105 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to inheritance taxes in certain cities.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5281 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to partitions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5790 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the survival of the right of action against a deceased tort feasor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5390 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the order in which debts of decedents shall be paid.

1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5161 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale and leasing of contingent and other estates; procedure; validating proceedings and sales in certain suits in equity heretofore instituted.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6298 of the Code of Virginia as to substituted trustee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5247 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the jurisdiction of probate of wills.
An ACT to provide for payment of small sums due from employers State of Virginia or United States to distributees of decedents upon whose estates there have been no qualifications.
An ACT to amend the tax Code of Virginia by adding a new sub-section to section 25 thereof, the said sub-section to be designated (n), and being in relation to deductions under the income tax law; also to amend and re-enact sections 39, 90, 107, 110, 120, 170, 198, 203, 267, 407, 410, and 415 of the tax Code of Virginia; which sections are in chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 18 and 26 of the tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of income, intangible personal property, banks, banking associations and trust companies, inheritance taxes, licenses, real estate assessments and erroneous assessments; and also to repeal section 169 of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of ship brokers; section 179 of the tax: Code of Virginia, in relation to fish factories, and section 181-a of the tax Code of Virginia, in relation to the license taxation of installment paper handlers or dealers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5123 of the Code of Virginia, relating to dower.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5402 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to commissioner of accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled, “An act in relation to a surviving husband’s curtesy,” approved March 28, 1922, as amended by chapter 345 of the acts of assembly of 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5125 of the Code of Virginia, concerning the assignment of dower, as heretofore amended.
An Act to add a new section to the Code of Virginia, to be designated as sections 6266—a, in relation to subjecting curtesy and dower interests in real estate, to the satisfaction of liens thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6239, 5361, 5362, 5363, 5364, 5365 and 5366 of the Code of Virginia, relating to presumption of death of persons absent for seven years or more and the distribution of the estate, real and personal, of such persons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5437 of the Code of Virginia, providing when distribution may be made of the estate of a decedent, and how.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5438 of the Code of Virginia, providing when fiduciaries are protected by refunding bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5439 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings by legatees or distributees to compel creditors to show cause against distribution of an estate and their liability to refund in such cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5276 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5314, 5316 and 5320 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections are in chapter 216 of the said Code entitled “Guardians and Wards.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5249 of the Code of Virginia, in the relation to the probate of wills, the appointment of appraisers of the estates of decedents, and the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, and curators, by the clerks of the circuit and corporation courts, and other courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5352 of the Code of Virginia, providing what notice and evidence required in case of ward or insane person before order is made authorizing proceeds of sale of real estate of non-resident infant, insane person, or cestui que trust, invested by court, to be transferred to foreign guardian, committee or trustee, [S B 367]
An ACT to authorize a surety or endorser of any obligation for the payment of money to execute a renewal thereof in the name of a personal representative of a deceased maker

1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5390 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the order in which debts of decedents shall be paid.
An ACT providing reciprocal relations in respect to death duties in non-resident estates.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 36, 36-a, 74, 76, 98, 140, 171, 197, 253, 255, 267, 336 and 418 of the Tax Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 6, 7, 9, 14, 18, 22 and 27 of the Tax Code of Virginia on the subjects of income, intangible personal property, inheritance taxes, licenses, real estate assessments, examiners of records, and omitted taxes; and also to repeal section 328 of the Tax Code of Virginia requiring the commissioner of the revenue to send department of taxation copy of recapitulation sheets of land book.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 71 of an act entitled an act to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth, relating to banks and banking; which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia banking act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof, approved March 27, 1928, relating to trust companies.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5248 of the Code of Virginia, relating to curators of estates.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5247 and 5249 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the probate of wills and to the appointment of executors, et cetera, both sections having been heretofore amended.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1933, and the thirtieth day of June, 1934.
An ACT to amend chapter 219 of the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered 5392-a, providing for the apportionment of taxes between life tenants and remaindermen.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 of the Code of Virginia,
An ACT to amend and re- enact section 5403 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the return by fiduciaries of inventories of personal property and real estate.

1934
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6298 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appointment of trustees in the place of one who is dead, has resigned, removed or declined the trust, authorizing the beneficiary to make the appointment of substitute trustees in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5363 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to proceedings concerning presumption of death of persons absent for seven years or more and to distribution of estates of such persons.
An ACT to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions and to declare valid and effectual conveyances made hereafter under similar conditions; and to repeal an act entitled an act to validate conveyances of real estate by executors given power of sale under wills admitted to probate in other jurisdictions, approved March 14, 1924.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 5371-a in order to provide for the appointment and qualification of personal representatives and guardians in certain cases without security; to exempt certain estates from taxes and court costs, and to repeal ia 293 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, approved March 16
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5249 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to probate of wills, appointment and qualification of appraisers, personal representatives and curators, by clerks and deputies, and appeals therefrom.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 185 thereof a new section numbered 4705-a prohibiting persons from advertising in newspapers to draw wills or have wills drawn and prescribing penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5259 of the Code of Virginia, relating to probate, impeachment and establishment of wills.
An ACT to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the town of Vienna, in the county of Fairfax, to compromise with Katrina Hine Echols its claim to the real estate and the proceeds of the sale of portions thereof, formerly owned by the late Charles DeLano Hine, and to authorize either of the parties to bring suit against the other, in the circuit court of Fairfax, for the partition of said real estate in the event the said parties cannot voluntarily agree as to the division thereof.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered section 5409-a, fixing the time within which accounts of fiduciaries holding principal sums of five hundred dollars or less, shall be exhibited before a commissioner of accounts.

1936
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 31, 36, 36-a, 41 and 51 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to income taxes; to amend and re-enact Section 98 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to inheritance taxes; to amend and re-enact Section 120-15 of the Tax Code of Virginia in relation to gift taxes; to amend and re-enact Section 216-a of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to pipe line transmission corporations; and to amend and re-enact Section 229 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the Taxes on water or heat, light and power corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5408 and 5426 of the Code of Virginia, relating to settlement of fiduciaries accounts, and filing reports thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6552 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to articles which may be held exempt from levy or distress.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 267 and 268 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to preparing and furnishing lists of deeds, judgments and decrees for partition of lands and lands devised by will by clerks of courts in which such deeds and wills are recorded and such judgments and decrees are rendered in cities containing more than one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5439 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to disbursements by personal representatives to legatees and distributees.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5393-a, relating to the powers of surviving executors and of administrators with the will annexed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6298-a of the Code of Virginia, relating to surviving and substitute trustees in the case of discretionary trusts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide that no non-resident of this State shall be appointed or allowed to qualify as personal representative, guardian or committee of a resident decedent, infant or person non compos mentis, unless there be appointed also a resident personal representative, guardian or committee, approved March 15, 1924, so as to extend its provisions to apply to non-resident decedents, infants and persons non compos mentis.
An ACT to prescribe the method of ascertainment of principal and income and the apportionment of receipts and expenses among tenants and remaindermen, and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to courts authorizing payment of money to infants, or to other persons for their benefit, without the intervention of a guardian.

1938
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 50 of the Tax Code of Virginia relating to income taxes on estates and trusts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5323 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to interest to be paid by guardians.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 28, as heretofore amended, of chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, relating to transfers of title to and interest in motor vehicles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5247, 5249 and 5316 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the probate of wills, and the appointment and qualification of appraisers of estates, administrators, executors, curators, and guardians.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5390 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to the order in which debts of decedents shall be paid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5374 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commitment of estates to sheriffs, and sergeants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5120 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jointure in bar of dower and effect of conveyance or devise.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5365 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the distribution of estates of, and sale of property descending or passing from, persons presumed to be dead.

1940
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 98 and 120-1 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to inheritance and gift taxes, respectively.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5390 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the order in which debts of decedents shall be paid.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered 5139-b, to provide how curtesy may be barred.

1942
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5263-a, to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate for value from a devisee, or from a personal representative with certain powers, under the will of a decedent, against the claim of a devisee under another will of such decedent offered for probate after one year from the death of the testator.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5247, 5249 and 5316 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the probate of wills and the appointment and qualification of appraisers of estates, administrators, executors, curators and’ guardians.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 50 of the Tax Code as heretofore amended, in relation to the income taxation of estates and trusts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5230 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the execution of appointments by will.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 5338-a, to remove the disability of infancy for the purpose of passing the contingent right of curtesy and dower, and to repeal Chapter 293 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 20, 1922, relating to the same matter.
An ACT to — and re-enact Section 519 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the publication of notice of suits to residuum of a decedent’s estate, belonging to the Commonwealth, and any other property derelict or having no rightful owner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 20 of Chapter 379, Acts 1938, approved March 31, 1938, of which the short title is 'Virginia Public Assistance Act of 1938.'
An ACT relating to the payment of money and delivery of intangible personal property belonging to non-resident decedents.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 238 thereof a new section numbered 5827-a, to prescribe the time within which a suit or action may be brought to subject real estate to the payment of bequests or legacies provided for in the will of any person.
An ACT to provide, with certain exceptions, for the disposition of property where there is no sufficient evidence that persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.
An ACT to provide for the dispesition of surplus from the proceeds of trustees’ sales under deeds of trusts in cases where such sales are held after the death of the grantor or his successor in title.

1942es
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5342 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to securing and application of proceeds from disposition of lands of persons under disabilities; and to declare the existence of an