                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ORDER OF THE COURT (§ 55.1-2437)

If no person appears and shows that he has title to the property, the court
shall order that the residue or other property belongs to the Commonwealth and
enforce the collection thereof or of the proceeds of the sale of such property,
provided, however, that if the residue or other property was given, bequeathed,
or devised by will to a charitable institution in the Commonwealth and such
gift, bequest, or devise failed by reason of insufficient witnessing of such
will and would otherwise escheat to the Commonwealth, and the court finds that
it is in the public interest, the court may order such residue or other
property, or so much thereof as was subject to such gift, bequest, or devise, to
be paid to such charitable institution.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 520; Code 1950, § 55-199; 1977, c. 488; 2019, c. 712.