§ 17.1-231 — Documents to be recorded in will book

Virginia § 17.1-231

• Jurisdiction: Virginia
• Title 17.1: COURTS OF RECORD
• Ch. 2: CLERKS, CLERKS' OFFICES AND RECORDS
• Art. 3: RECORDS, RECORDATION AND INDEXING GENERALLY

Text

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.

Legislative History

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