Chap. 303.— 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) en-
titled an act to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser of rea] 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.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the acts of eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-one and ninety-two, approved February second,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two (section two thousand five hun-
dred and forty-seven-a of Pollard’s Code) be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2547-a. The title of a bone fide purchaser without notice for
valuable consideration from the heir-at-law of a person who has
died heretofore or who may die hereafter having title to any real
estate of inheritance in this Commonwealth, shall not be affected by
a devise of such real estate made by the decedent, unless within
two years after the testator’s death the will devising the same, or
if such will has been probated without this State, an authenticated
copy thereof and the certificate of probate shall be filed for probate
before the court or clerk having jurisdiction for that purpose, and
shall afterwards be admitted to probate and recorded in the proper
court or clerk’s office as a will of real estate; provided, that if any
devisee under such will, is at the time of the testator’s death an
infant, or insane, the limitation created by this act shall not affect
such infant, or insane person, until after the expiration of two years
from the removal of his or her disability.