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 deviseprotected.
The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice for valuable considerationfrom the heir at law of a person who has died heretofore, or who may diehereafter, having title to any real estate of inheritance in thisCommonwealth, shall not be affected by a devise of such real estate made bythe decedent, unless within one year after the testator's death the willdevising the same or, if such will has been probated without thisCommonwealth, an authenticated copy thereof and the certificate of probateshall be filed for probate before the court or clerk having jurisdiction forthat purpose and shall afterwards be admitted to probate and recorded in theproper court or clerk's office as a will of real estate.
(Code 1950, § 64-91; 1968, c. 656.)