Chap. 382.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2463 of the Code of Vir-
ginia.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as fo read as follows:

§ 2463. Contracts in consideration of marriage, or for the sale of real
estate, and so forth, void as to creditors and purchasers unless in writ-
ing.—Every contract, not in writing, made, in respect to real estate or
goods and chattels, in consideration of marriage, or made for the convey-
ance or sale of real estate, or a term therein of more than five years,
shall be void, both at law and in equity, as to purchasers for valuable
consideration without notice and creditors.

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