Chap. 781.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2588 of the code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the jurisdiction of the probate of wills,as amended and
re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend certain sections of the code,
approved January 18, 1888.

Approved March 7, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-five hundred and thirty-three of the code as amended and
re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections
one hundred and twelve, six hundred and thirty-three, six hundred
and seventy-four, two thousand five hundred and thirty-three, three
thousand and forty-five, three thousand and fifty, three thou-
sand and ninety-three, three thousand and ninety-one, three thou-
sand four hundred and fifty-five, three thousand four hundred and
ninety-two, four thousand and forty-eight and four thousand and
forty-nine of the act entitled an act to revise, arrange and consoli-
date into a code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved
May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, approved Janu-
ary eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2533. Jurisdiction of probate of wills.—The circuit, county and
corporation courts shall have jurisdiction as to probate of wills ac-
cording to the following rules, that is to say: in the county or corpo-
ration wherein the decedent has a mansion house or known place of
residence; if he has nosuch house or place of residence, then in a
county or corporation wherein any real estate lies that is devised or
owned by the decedent; and if there be no such real estate, then in
the county or corporation wherein he dies, or a county or corporation
wherein he has estate.

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