Chap. 131.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 5263-a, to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate for
value from a devisee, or from a personal representative with certain powers,
under the will of a decedent, against the claim of a devisee under another will
of such decedent offered for probate after one year from the death of the
testator. [H B 99]

Approved March 9, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section, numbered fifty-
two hundred and sixty-three-a, as follows:

Section 5263-a. To protect the title of certain purchasers of real
estate from devisees and personal representatives.—The title of a bona
fide purchaser without notice for valuable consideration from the devisee,
or from the personal representative with power to sell, encumber, lease
or exchange, under the will of a person who has died heretofore, or may
die hereafter, having title to any real estate of inheritance in this Com-
monwealth, shall not be affected by any other devise of such real estate
made by the testator in another will, unless within one year after the
testator’s death such other will, or if such other 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 juris-
diction 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 other will is at the time of the
testator’s death an infant, or insane, the limitation created by this section
shall not affect such infant or insane person, until after the expiration
of one year from the removal of his or her disability.