{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-64.2-100","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 64.2-100","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:\"Bona fide purchaser\" means a purchaser of property for value who has acted in the transaction in good faith. Notice of a seller's marital status, or notice of the existence of a premarital or marital agreement, does not affect the status of a bona fide purchaser. A \"purchaser\" is one who acquires property by sale, lease, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, or lien or who otherwise deals with property in a voluntary transaction, other than a gift. A purchaser gives \"value\" for property acquired in return for a binding commitment to extend credit to the transferor or another as security for or in total or partial satisfaction of a pre-existing claim, or in return for any other consideration sufficient to support a simple contract.\"Fiduciary\" includes a guardian, committee, trustee, executor, conservator, or personal representative.\"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.\"Trustee\" means a trustee under a probated will or an inter vivos trust instrument.\"Will\" includes any testament, codicil, exercise of a power of appointment by will or by a writing in the nature of a will, or any other testamentary disposition.Code 1950, § 64-47; 1968, c. 656, § 64.1-45; 1992, cc. 617, 647, § 64.1-01; 2012, c. 614.","path":["Title 64.2. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARIES","Subtitle I. GENERAL PROVISIONS","Chapter 1. DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS","Article 1. DEFINITIONS"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/64.2-100/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:18:14Z","sha256":"75dd7aa557a1865b934ab43ce57b9759d8a3b2f5e1cd00e24552ad0229ca69c1","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-63.2-2300","next":"us-va/va.-code-64.2-101"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}