CHAPTER 45

An Act to amend and reenact § 55-276 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to commutation in cases of persons under disability. CH 209]

Approved February 18, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 55-276 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 55-276. In any case in which under the laws of this State pro-
vision is made for commutation in money of a life estate when all the
parties interested are under no disability, such provision shall also apply
when any of the parties interested are under disability, and in any such
latter case the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may, upon appli-
cation of the guardian, committee, or trustee, if any, and, if not, by a
guardian ad litem appointed by * the clerk or judge of said court, of any
such person, on behalf of his ward, and upon hearing evidence satisfac-
tory to such court or judge, enter an order authorizing such guardian,
committee, trustee or guardian ad litem, to consent on behalf of such per-
son under disability to such commutation. Such consent when so given
shall be as valid and effective as if the person on whose behalf it was
given were sui juris and had given such consent. All judicial orders and
decrees entered prior to * July first, nineteen hundred sixty, authorizing
any such commutation where persons under disability were interested, are
hereby validated and confirmed; provided that nothing in this section
contained shall be construed as intended to impair any vested right.