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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’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§ 64.2-423 Repealed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