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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56406</law_id><section_number>64.2-457</section_number><catch_line>Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected; later will</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-556</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Wills</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="6">Recordation and Effect</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The title of a <span class="dictionary">bona fide purchaser</span> without notice from the devisee, or from the <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span> with power to sell, encumber, lease, or exchange, under the <span class="dictionary">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 any other devise of such real estate made by the testator in another <span class="dictionary">will</span>, unless within one year after the testator&#x2019;s death such other <span class="dictionary">will</span> or, if such other <span class="dictionary">will</span> has been probated outside of the Commonwealth, an authenticated copy thereof and the certificate of probate shall be filed for probate before the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or clerk having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> for that purpose and shall afterwards be admitted to probate and recorded in the proper <span class="dictionary">court</span> or clerk&#x2019;s office as a <span class="dictionary">will</span> of real estate.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 64-92; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7; 64.1-96; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
