Chap. 328.—An ACT validating certain holographic wills admitted to probate
in this State since the taking effect of the Code of Virginia of a
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Approved March 20, 1922.

Whereas, the Code of Virginia, nineteen hundred and nineteen,
requires that a holographic will shall be proved by at least two dis-
interested witnesses ; and a

Whereas, since the adoption of said Code of Virginia of nineteen
hundred and nineteen, several such wills have been proved by one
witness instead of two; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
probate of all holographic wills admitted to probate in this State
since the adoption of said Code of Virginia of nineteen hundred and
nineteen, the handwriting of which have been proved by one wit-
ness instead of two, as prescribed by said Code, be, and the same is
validated and made as binding and effectual as if the said wills had
been proved according to said Code.

2. An emergency existing on account of the probate of the wills
proved by one witness as aforesaid, there is declared to be an emer-
gency, and as such this act shall be in force from its passage.