CHAPTER 169

An Act to amend and reenact § 64-90 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
how wills are to be indexed. rH 169]

Approved March 4, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Ls That § 64-90 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 64-90. Every will or authenticated copy admitted to probate by
any court or clerk of any circuit court shall be recorded by the clerk and
remain in the clerk’s office, except during such time as the same may be
carried to another court under a subpoena duces tecum. A duly certified
copy of such will or of any authenticated copy so admitted to record may
be recorded in any county or city wherein there is any estate, real or
personal, devised or bequeathed by such will.

The personal representative of the testator shall cause a duly certified
copy of any will or of any authenticated copy so admitted to record to be
recorded in any county or city wherein there is any real estate of which
the testator died seized or which is devised by his will. On and after July
1, 1964, such will shall be indexed in the General Indices of Deeds in such
clerk’s office in the name of the testator as grantor.

Every will, or such a duly certified copy as is mentioned in this section,
when duly recorded shall have the effect of notice to all persons of any
devise or disposal by the will of real estate situated in a county or city
in which such will or copy is so recorded.
Every clerk on recording any will, or such a copy as is mentioned in
this section, shall index the same as required by law.