                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DOCUMENTS TO BE RECORDED IN WILL BOOK (§ 17.1-231)

All wills, inventories, appraisements, lists of sales and settlements of
accounts of executors, administrators, curators, trustees or other fiduciaries
shall be recorded in a book to be known as the will book. Provided, that the
judges of the several courts of the Commonwealth before whom fiduciaries qualify
may, by order, prescribe that inventories, appraisements, accounts of sale and
settlement of accounts of fiduciaries, together with all reports and decrees or
orders, or portions thereof, proper to be recorded therewith, shall be recorded
either in the current will book or in a book to be kept by the clerk for that
purpose. Such courts may prescribe that the settlements of accounts of
fiduciaries be recorded in the mode prescribed by § 64.2-1214.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-63; 1920, p. 313; 1932, p. 333; 1998, c. 872.