Chap. 200.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5125 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to the assignment of dower. {S B 238]

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-one hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5125. How dower may be assigned.— Dower may be as-
signed as at common law; or upon the motion of the widow, heirs, dev-
isees, or alienees, or any of them,-the court in which og in the clerk’s
office of which the will of the husband is admitted to record or adminis-
tration of his estate is granted or the conveyance of the alienee’ is re-
corded, may appoint commissioners, by whom the dower may be as-
signed, and the assignment, when confirmed by the court, shall have the
same effect as if made by the heir at common law; but nothing herein
contained shall be construed to take away or affect the jurisdiction which
courts of chancery now exercise on the subject of dower.