Chap. 292.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
tect the title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate for value from
the heir at law of a decedent against the devise of the said real estate
without notice to such purchasers, which was approved (a Bey

1892.
Approved March 18, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled 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
the devise of the said real estate without notice to said pur-
chaser, which was approved February second, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice for valu-
able consideration from the heir-at-law of a person who has died
heretofore or who may die hereafter, having title to any real
estate of inheritance in this Commonwealth, shall not be af-
fected by a devise of such real estate made by the decedent,
unless within two years after the testator’s death, or in case
two years have already elapsed since the testator’s death,
within thirty days from the date this act takes effect, the
will devising the same, or if such will has been probated
without this State, an authenticated copy thereof and the
certificate of probate shall be filed for probate before the
court or clerk, having jurisdiction for that purpose, and shall
afterwards be admitted to probate and recorded in the proper
court or clerk’s office 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 limitations 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. It being important that this law take effect as soon as
possible to make titles good, this act shall take effect from its

passage.