Chap. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5276 of the Gode of ae
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Approved February 21, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-two hundred and seventy-six of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5276. When and how benefits of will may be renounced and
the effect thereof—When any provision for a husband or a wife is
made in the consort’s will, the survivor may, within one year from
the time of the admission of the will to probate, renounce such pro-
vision. Such renunciation shall be made either in person before
the court in which the will is recorded, or by writing recorded in such
court, or the clerk’s office thereof, upon such acknowledgement or
proof as would authorize a writing to be admitted to record under
chapter two hundred and eleven. If such renunciation be made, or if
no provision for the surviving husband or wife be made in the will
of the decedent, the surviving’consort shall, if the decedent left sur-
viving issue of the marriage which was dissolved by the death of the
consort or surviving issue of a former marriage, have one-third of
the surplus of the decedent’s personal estate mentioned in section
fifty-two hundred and seventy-three; or if no such issue survive, the
surviving consort shall have one-half of the aforesaid surplus; other-
wise, the surviving consort shall have no more of the said surplu:
than is given him or her by the will.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from it:
passage.