                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LIMITATION ON ENFORCEMENT OF BEQUESTS AND LEGACIES (§ 8.01-254)

Wherever by any will, the testator devises any real estate to some person and
requires such person to pay some other person a specified sum of money, or
provides a legacy for some person which constitutes a charge against the real
estate of the testator, or any part thereof, no suit or action 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.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-21; 1977, c. 617.