Chap. 401.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 238
thereof a new section numbered 5827-a, to prescribe the time within which a suit
or action may be brought to subject real estate to the payment of bequests or
legacies provided for in the will of any person. [S B 281]

Approved April 3, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding to chapter two hundred and
thirty-eight thereof a new section numbered fifty-eight hundred and
twenty-seven-a, as follows:

Section 5827-a. Limitation on Enforcement of Bequests and Lega-
cies.— Wherever by any will, the testator devises any real estate to some
person and requires such person to pay some other person a specified
sum of money, or provides a legacy for some person, which constitutes a
charge against the real estate of the testator, or any part thereof, no suit
or action shall be brought to subject such real estate to the payment of
such specified sum of money or such legacy, as the case may be, after
twenty years from the time when the same shall have been payable, and if
the will specifies no time for the payment thereof, it shall be deemed to
have been payable immediately upon the death of the testator, provided
that any such suit or action may be brought at any time within one year
from the effective date of this act, but not thereafter, when the cause of
action first accrued as long as or longer than nineteen years prior to such
effective date.
642 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY [va., 1942