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This law was first created in 1991. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 197 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1991 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2012, chapter 614<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":273375,"object_type":"law","relational_id":74320,"identifier":"64.2-458","token":"64.2\/II\/4\/6\/64.2-458","url":"\/64.2-458\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/64.2-458\/","token":"64.2\/II\/4\/6\/64.2-458","dublin_core":{"Title":"Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected; intestacy","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 64.2-458","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The title of a bona fide purchaser<\/span> without notice from the devisee, or from the personal representative<\/span> with power to sell, encumber, lease, or exchange, under the will<\/span> of a person who has died heretofore, or may die hereafter, having title to any real estate of inheritance in the Commonwealth, shall not be affected by the later impeachment<\/span> of the testator’s will<\/span> that results in intestacy, unless within one year after the testator’s death a complaint is filed before the court<\/span> having jurisdiction<\/span> for that purpose.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBONA FIDE PURCHASER OF REAL ESTATE WITHOUT NOTICE OF DEVISE PROTECTED; INTESTACY\n(\u00a7 64.2-458)\n\nThe title of a bona fide purchaser without notice from the devisee, or from the\npersonal representative with power to sell, encumber, lease, or exchange, under\nthe will of a person who has died heretofore, or may die hereafter, having title\nto any real estate of inheritance in the Commonwealth, shall not be affected by\nthe later impeachment of the testator’s will that results in intestacy,\nunless within one year after the testator’s death a complaint is filed\nbefore the court having jurisdiction for that purpose.\n\nHISTORY: 1991, c. 197, \u00a7 64.1-96.1; 2012, c. 614.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}