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This is Article 3 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Construction and Effect.” It is part of Chapter 4 “Wills”, which is part of Subtitle II “Wills and Decedents' Estates”, which is part of Title 64.2 “Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries”. It contains 19 laws.
It’s comprised of the following 19 sections.
§ 64.2-414 When wills deemed to speak
§ 64.2-415 How certain trust provisions, bequests, and devises to be construed; nonademption in certain cases
§ 64.2-416 Devises, bequests, and distributions that fail; how to pass
§ 64.2-417 When advancement deemed satisfaction of devise or bequest
§ 64.2-418 When children or descendants of beneficiary to take estate or trust
§ 64.2-419 Provision for omitted children when no child living when will made
§ 64.2-420 Provision for omitted children when child living when will made
§ 64.2-421 Construction of certain conditions of spouse's survivorship
§ 64.2-422 When omitted spouse to take intestate portion
§ 64.2-423 Repealed
§ 64.2-424 When direction to purchase annuity binding on legatee
§ 64.2-425 Interest on pecuniary legacies
§ 64.2-426 Testamentary additions to trusts by testator dying on or after July 1, 1994, and before July 1, 1999
§ 64.2-427 Testamentary additions to trusts by testator dying after June 30, 1999
§ 64.2-428 Distribution of assets by fiduciaries in satisfaction of pecuniary bequests or transfers in trust of pecuniary amount
§ 64.2-429 Construction of trust provisions otherwise eligible for the election permitted under § 2056(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code
§ 64.2-430 Certain marital deduction formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal marital deduction allowable if decedent had died on December 31, 1981
§ 64.2-431 Certain powers of appointment construed to refer to federal gift tax exclusion in effect on date of execution
§ 64.2-432 Certain formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws applicable to estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2011