Chap. 130.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 5145-a, validating certain deeds executed by agents or attorneys-in-fact
for certain persons in military service or engaged in war work. [S B 30]

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new sec-
tion numbered fifty-one hundred forty-five-a, as follows:

Section 5145-a. Validation of deeds executed by agents or attor-
neys-in-fact for persons in military service or absent from United States
in war work.—All deeds or other writings executed by an agent or at-
torney-in-fact for a person in the armed forces or military service of the
United States, or for a person who, after executing a power of attorney
or agency agreement entered the armed forces or military service of the
United States, or for a person who departed from the United States by
permission or direction of any department or official of the United States
in connection with work relating to the prosecution of the war, when the
power of attorney or agency agreement (under which the deed or other
instrument was signed) was not executed in such a manner as to be valid
as a sealed instrument, shall be held, and the same are hereby declared,
valid, and effective in all respects if otherwise valid according to the law
then in force.

The provisions of this act shall not operate to affect adversely inter-
vening vested rights.