64.1-113 - Revocation of determination of death, etc.; effect on previous acts; title of purchasers, etc.
§ 64.1-113. Revocation of determination of death, etc.; effect on previousacts; title of purchasers, etc.
The court, after reasonable notice to the parties interested, may revoke suchdetermination of death at any time on due and satisfactory evidence that thesupposed decedent is in fact alive. After such revocation all powers of anypersonal representative shall cease, but all receipts and disbursements ofassets and other acts previously done by him and the title of bona fidepurchasers to property under sales made by him or by the heir at law,devisee, next of kin, legatee, survivor, beneficiary, or other successor ininterest if such person shall have complied with § 64.1-112, shall remain asvalid as if no revocation had been made. Any personal representative shallsettle his account and all assets remaining in his hands or in the hands ofsuch heir at law, devisee, next of kin, legatee, survivor, beneficiary, orother successor in interest and the proceeds thereof shall be transferred tothe owner thereof determined to be dead or to his duly authorized agent orattorney. Nothing in this section shall validate the title of any person toany money or property received as heir at law, devisee, next of kin, legatee,survivor, beneficiary, or other successor in interest of such supposeddecedent, but the same may be recovered from them in like manner as if suchorder had not been granted.
(Code 1950, § 64-109; 1968, c. 656; 2006, c. 351.)