2011 Code of Virginia
Title 64.1 WILLS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES.
Chapter 3 Wills (64.1-45 thru 64.1-96.11)
64.1-95 Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected
64.1-95. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected.
The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice for valuable consideration from the heir at law of a person who has died heretofore, or who may die hereafter, having title to any real estate of inheritance in this Commonwealth, shall not be affected by a devise of such real estate made by the decedent, unless within one year after the testator's death the will devising the same or, if such will has been probated without this Commonwealth, an authenticated copy thereof and the certificate of probate shall be filed for probate before the court or clerk having jurisdiction for that purpose and shall afterwards be admitted to probate and recorded in the proper court or clerk's office as a will of real estate.
(Code 1950, 64-91; 1968, c. 656.)
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