Chap. 492.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5264 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, [fH B 75]
Approved March 28, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-two hundred and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5264. Course of descents generally —When any person hav-
ing title to any real estate of inheritance shall die intestate as to
such estate, it shall descend and pass in parcenary to such of his
kindred, male and female, as are not alien enemies, in the following
course:

First. To his children and their descendants.

Second. If there be no child, nor the descendant of any child,
then to his or her father and mother, or the survivor.

Third. If there be no father nor mother, then to his or her
brothers and sisters, and their descendants.

Fourth. If none such, then the whole shall go to the surviving
consort of the intestate.

Fifth. If none such, then one moiety shall go to the paternal
the other to the maternal kindred, of the intestate, in the following
course:

Sixth. First to the grandfather and grandmother.

Seventh. If none such, then to the great grandfathers, or great
grandfather, and great grandmothers, or great grandmother.

Eighth. If none, then to the brothers and sisters of the grand-
fathers and grandmothers, and their descendants.

Ninth. And so on, in other cases, without end, passing to the
nearest lineal ancestors, and the descendants of such ancestors.

Tenth. If there be neither maternal nor paternal kindred, the
whole shall go to the kindred of the husband or wife, in the like
course as if such husband or wife had died entitled to the estate.
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