8.01-254 - Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-254. Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies.

Wherever by any will, the testator devises any real estate to some person andrequires such person to pay some other person a specified sum of money, orprovides a legacy for some person which constitutes a charge against the realestate of the testator, or any part thereof, no suit or action shall bebrought to subject such real estate to the payment of such specified sum ofmoney or such legacy, as the case may be, after twenty years from the timewhen the same shall have been payable, and if the will specifies no time forthe payment thereof, it shall be deemed to have been payable immediately upondeath of the testator.

(Code 1950, § 8-21; 1977, c. 617.)