Chap. 243.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5437 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, providing when distribution may be made of the estate of a decedent,
and how. [S B 110]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-four hundred and thirty-seven of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5437. A personal representative shall not be compelled to
pay any legacy given by the will, or make distribution of the estate
of his decedent, until after six months from the date of the order con-
ferring authority on the first executor or administrator of such dece-
dent; and, except where it is otherwise specifically provided, he shall
not then be compelled to make such payment or distribution until the
legatee or distributee shall give him a bond, executed by himself or
some other person, with sufficient surety, with condition to refund
a due proportion of any debts or demands which may afterwards appear
against the decedent, and of the costs attending their recovery. Such
bond shall be filed and recorded in the clerk’s office of the court which
may have decreed such payment or distribution, or in which the
accounts of such representative may be recorded.