Chap. 148.—An ACT to protect the title of a bona fide purchaser
of real estate for value from the heir at law of a decedent against
a devise of the said real estate without notice to such purchaser.

Approved February 2, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the title of a bona fide purchaser without notice, and
for valuable consideration, from the heir at law of a person
who died having title to any real estate of inheritance in
this: commonwealth, shall not be affected by a devise of
such real estate made by the decedent, unless within seven
years after the testator’s death, the will devising the same,
or if such will has been proved without this state, an au-
thenticated copy thereof, and the certificate of probate,
shall be offered for probate before the court having juris-
diction for that purpose, and shall afterwards be admitted
to probate and record in the proper court as a will of real
estate: provided, that if any devisee under such will is at
the time of the testator’s death an infant or insane, the
limitation created by this act shall not affect such infant
or insane person until after the expiration of two years
from the removal of his or her disability.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.