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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63236</law_id><section_number>8.01-254</section_number><catch_line>Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Limitations of Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Miscellaneous Limitations Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Wherever by any will, the testator devises any real estate to some <span class="dictionary">person</span> and requires such <span class="dictionary">person</span> to pay some other <span class="dictionary">person</span> a specified sum of money, or provides a legacy for some <span class="dictionary">person</span> which constitutes a charge against the real estate of the testator, or any part thereof, no <span class="dictionary">suit</span> or <span class="dictionary">action</span> shall be brought to subject such real estate to the payment of such specified sum of money or such legacy, as the case may be, after twenty years from the time when the same shall have been payable, and if the will specifies no time for the payment thereof, it shall be deemed to have been payable immediately upon death of the testator.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-21; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
