Chap. 283.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, as her2tofore amended, by
adding thereto a new section, to be numbered 5139-b, to provide how curtesy
may be barred. {[S B 305]

Approved March 27, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be amended by adding
thereto a new section, to be numbered fifty-one hundred and thirty-
nine-b, which new section shall read as follows:

Section 5139-b. If any real estate, intended to be in lieu of
curtesy, shall be devised for the curtesy of the husband, such devise
shall bar his curtesy of the real estate, or the residue thereof, and
every such devise by will shall be taken to be intended in lieu of
curtesy, unless the contrary intention plainly appear in such will,
or in some other writing signed by the party making the provision,
provided, that the husband may renounce such provision in the man-
ner and form prescribed in section fifty-two hundred and seventy-
six of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, upon which re-
nunciation the husband shall be entitled to curtesy in the estate of
his wife, as is provided in section fifty-one hundrecl and thirty-nine-a
of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.