Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 18.2 > Chapter 8 > Article 8 - Offenses Involving Animals.

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
• Personal estate: includes chattels real and such other estate as, upon the death of the owner intestate, would devolve upon his personal representative. See Virginia Code 1-233
• Personal representative: includes the executor under a will or the administrator of the estate of a decedent, the administrator of such estate with the will annexed, the administrator of such estate unadministered by a former representative, whether there is a will or not, any person who is under the order of a circuit court to take into his possession the estate of a decedent for administration, and every other curator of a decedent's estate, for or against whom suits may be brought for causes of action that accrued to or against the decedent. See Virginia Code 64.2-100
• Probate: Proving a will
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
• Testate: To die leaving a will.