CHAPTER 289

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-692 of the Code of 1950, so
as to allow allotment to more than one party, where parti-
tion 1s impracticable.

[ H 232 ]
Approved April 4, 1950
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. f that § 8-692 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted

as follows:

§ 8-692. Allotment to one * or more parties or sale in
lieu of partition.—When partition cannot be conveniently made,
the entire subject may be allotted to any * one or more of the
parties who will accept it, and pay therefor to the other parties
such sums of money as their interest therein may entitle them
to; or in any case in which partition cannot be conveniently
made, if the interest of those who are entitled to the subject, or
its proceeds, will be promoted by a sale of the entire subject, or
allotment of part and sale of the residue, the court, notwith-
standing any of those entitled may be an infant or insane per-
son, may order such sale, or an allotment of a part thereof to
any one or more of the parties who will accept it and pay there-
for to the other parties such sums of money as their interest
therein may entitle them to, and a sale of the residue, and make
distribution of the proceeds of sale, according to the respective
rights of those entitled, taking care, when there are creditors
of any deceased person who was a tenant in common, joint ten-
ant, or coparcener, to have the proceeds of such deceased per:
son’s part applied according to the rights of such creditors.