64.1-170 - When representative and sureties not chargeable beyond assets; procedure in actions against them. - Virginia Statutes

§ 64.1-170. When representative and sureties not chargeable beyond assets;procedure in actions against them.

No personal representative or any surety of his shall be chargeable beyondthe assets of the decedent by reason of any omission or mistake in pleadingor false pleading of such representative; and in the action allowed by §64.1-169 the defendants may plead any pleas and offer any evidence whichwould be admissible in an action against a personal representative suggestinga devastavit.

(Code 1950, § 64-160; 1968, c. 656.)