CHAPTER 558

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 64-189 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to validation of certain conveyances by foreign executors.
[S 115]

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Py That § 64-139 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 64-189. Every conveyance of real estate within this State made
prior to June * thirty, nineteen hundred and * fifty-eight by the executor
of a will which, prior to such sale, has been probated according to the laws
of another state shall, without the qualification of the executor in this
State, be as valid and effectual to pass the title of such real estate as if the
executor named in such will and making such conveyance had qualified in
this State, in every case in which the will under which the executor acted
was duly executed according to the laws of this State as a valid will and
confers upon the executor the power to convey the real estate so conveyed
and an authenticated copy of such will has been admitted to probate in this
ae he the county or city in which the real estate or any part thereof is
situated.