CODE OF VIRGINIA

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE (§ 1-234)

“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.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5; Code 1950, § 1-13; 1950, p. 22, § 1-13.21; 1971, Ex.
Sess., c. 49; 2005, c. 839.