CHAPTER 109

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 64-1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to intestate succession. CH 101]

Approved February 23, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
on That § 64-1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 64-1. When any person having title to any real estate of inheri-
tance shall die intestate as to such estate, it shall descend and pass in
parcenary to such of his kindred, male and female, as are not alien enemies,
in the following course:

First. To his children and their descendants.

Second. If there be no child, nor the descendant of any child, then *
the whole shall go to the surviving consort of the intestate.

Third. * If there be none such, then to his or her father and mother
or the survivor.

Fourth. * Jf there be none such, then to his or her brothers and
sisters, and their descendants.

Fifth. If there be none such, then one moiety shall go to the paternal,
the other to the maternal kindred, of the intestate, in the following course?
Sixth. First to the grandfather and grandmother or the survivor.

Seventh. If there be none, then to the uncles and aunts, and their
descendants.

Right. If there be none such, then to the great grandfathers or
great grandfather, and great grandmothers or great grandmother.

Ninth. If there be none then to the brothers and sisters of the
grandfathers and grandmothers, and their descendants.

_ Tenth. And so on, in other cases, without end, passing to the nearest
lineal ancestors, and the descendants of such ancestors.

Eleventh. If there be no paternal kindred the whole shall go to the
maternal kindred; and if there be no maternal kindred, the whole shall
go to the paternal kindred. If there be neither maternal nor paternal
kindred, the whole shall go to the kindred of the husband or wife, in the
like course as if such husband or wife had died entitled to the estate.