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2010 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES.
Chapter 22 - Acts Barring Property Rights (55-401 thru 55-415)
55-404 - Devise or legacy.
§ 55-404. Devise or legacy.
The slayer shall be deemed to have predeceased the decedent as to property which would have passed to the slayer by devise or legacy from the decedent, but § 64.1-64.1, preventing lapse of devises or legacies when the person named in the will dies before the testator, is applicable to such devise or legacy.
(1981, c. 469; 2008, cc. 822, 830.)
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