CHAPTER 15

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 55-197 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the recovery by the State of a decedent’s escheated residuum, and
of property derelict. [H. 80]

Approved February 10, 1956
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 55-197 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows: ae ‘

§55-197. The residuum of a decedent’s estate consisting either of
real or personal property, belonging to the Commonwealth, or subject to
escheat to the Commonwealth, and any property derelict, or having no
rightful owner, may be recovered from any person in possession thereof
by an escheator by a bill in equity in the name of the Commonwealth.