                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BONA FIDE PURCHASER OF REAL ESTATE WITHOUT NOTICE OF DEVISE PROTECTED (§
64.2-456)

The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice from the heir at law of a
person who has died heretofore, or who may die hereafter, having title to any
real estate of inheritance in the Commonwealth, shall not be affected by a
devise of such real estate made by the decedent, unless within one year after
the testator&#8217;s death the will devising the same or, if such will has been
probated outside of the Commonwealth, an authenticated copy thereof and the
certificate of probate shall be filed for probate before the court or clerk
having jurisdiction for that purpose and shall afterwards be admitted to probate
and recorded in the proper court or clerk&#8217;s office as a will of real
estate.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 64-91; 1968, c. 656, § 64.1-95; 2012, c. 614.