17.1-231 - Documents to be recorded in will book. - Virginia Statutes

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

All wills, inventories, appraisements, lists of sales and settlements ofaccounts of executors, administrators, curators, trustees or otherfiduciaries shall be recorded in a book to be known as the will book.Provided, that the judges of the several courts of the Commonwealth beforewhom 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, properto be recorded therewith, shall be recorded either in the current will bookor in a book to be kept by the clerk for that purpose. Such courts mayprescribe that the settlements of accounts of fiduciaries be recorded in themode prescribed by § 26-35.

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