Chap. 295.——-An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 5338-a, to remove the disability of infancy for the purpose of passing
the contingent right of curtesy and dower, and to repeal Chapter 293 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1922, approved March 20, 1922, relating to the
same matter. [H B 331]

Approved March 30, 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-
three hundred and thirty-eight-a, as follows:

Section 5338-a. Removal of disability of infancy for the purpose
of passing contingent right of curtesy and dower.—The disability of
infancy shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be removed by mar-
riage for the purpose of, and to the extent only, that hereafter an infant
wife, whether married before or after this act takes effect, may, in the
manner prescribed by section fifty-one hundred and thirty-five of the
Code of Virginia, or by uniting in any contract, deed or other instrument
executed by a commissioner of a court pursuant to a decree entered under
the provisions of chapter two hundred and seventeen of the Code of
Virginia or any other law or laws with respect to infants’ lands now in
force or hereafter enacted, dispose of her contingent right of dower in
her husband’s real estate as effectually as if she were an adult; and an
infant husband, whether married before or after this act takes effect,
may, in like manner, dispose of his contingent right of curtesy in his
wite’s real estate as effectually as if he were an adult.

2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
chapter two hundred and ninety-three of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, approved March twentieth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, is hereby repealed.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.