Chap. 226.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2625 of the code of Virginia,
in relation to how right of dower of insane wife may be passed, and how right
of curtesy of insane husband may be passed, same right in purchase money
to be secured to her or him, or compensation made.

Approved February 5, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-six hundred and twenty-five of the code of Virginia, in
relation to how the right of dower of an insane wife may be passed,
same right in purchase money to be secured to her or compensation
made, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2625. If the husband of an insane wife wish to sell real estate
and to have her right of dower therein released to the purchaser, or
if the wife of an insane husband wish to sell real estate and have
his right of curtesy therein released to the purchaser, he or she, as
the case may be, may petition for the purpose the circuit court of
the county or circuit or corporation court of the corporation in which
such estate or some part thereof is; and if it appear to the court to
be proper, an order may be made for the execution of such a release
by a commissioner to be appointed by the court for that purpose,
which release shal) be effectual to pass her said right of dower or his
right of curtesy, as the case may be, to the purchaser. But the
court shall make such order as, in its opinion, may be proper to
secure to the insane wife or husband, as the case may be, the same
interest in the purchase money and the income thereof that she or he
would have had in the real estate and income thereof, if it had not
been sold, or, at the discretion of the court, to secure to her or to him,
as the case may be, out of the purchase money such sum in gross as,
in the court’s opinion, may be sufficient to compensate her for right
of dower or him for right of curtesy.

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