“Personal estate” includes chattels real and such other estate as, upon the death of the owner intestate, would devolve upon his personal representative.

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Terms Used In Virginia Code 1-233

  • Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Personal representative: includes the executor of 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 1-234

Code 1919, § 5; Code 1950, § 1-13; 1950, p. 22, § 1-13.20; 2005, c. 839.