CHAP. 491.—An ACT in relation to a surviving husband’s curtesy. [H B 74]
Approved March 28, 1922.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a
surviving husband shall, if the wife die testate, be entitled to curtesy
in one-third, and if she die intestate and without issue, of this or of
a former marriage, in all of the real estate (except her equitable sepa-
ate estate where the instrument creating the same otherwise pro-
vides), whereof his wife, or any other to her use, was art any time
during the coverture seized of an estate of inheritance, unless his
right to curtesy shall have been lawfully barred or relinquished, and
the fact that the husband conveyed or caused the real estate to be
conveyed to the wife shall not bar his curtesy therein, nor shall it be
a mecessary requisite to curtesy that the wife shall have had a child
born alive during coverture.