CHAPTER 590

An Act to amend and reenact § 64-23 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
certain rights of certain survivors in estates of decedents. rH 544}

Approved April 6, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

ty That § 64-23 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows: .

§ 64-238. If any * estate, real or personal, intended to be in lieu of
curtesy, shall be devised or bequeathed for the curtesy of the husband,
such devise or bequest shall bar his curtesy of the real estate, or the residue
thereof, and every such devise or bequest 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 provi-
sion. But the husband may renounce such provision in the manner and
form prescribed in §§ 64-13 to 64-15 upon which renunciation the husband
shall be entitled to curtesy in the estate of his wife, as is provided in

§ 64-20