West Virginia Code § 41-5-20

Title to real estate devised by wills; rights of devisees and bona fide
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purchasers.
The title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate, without notice and for valuable
consideration, from the devisee or devisees of a testator, a will of whom has been duly
admitted to probate devising such real estate, shall not be affected or impaired by any devise
or other disposition of any such real estate by the testator by or in any othere will or wills
executed by him subsequent to the instrument already admitted to probate as his last will
and testament, unless any such subsequently executed will (or if any surch will has been
probated without the state, an authenticated copy thereof) shall be filed for probate in the
court having jurisdiction for that purpose, or with the clerk thereof, within one year next
after the testator's death and shall afterwards be admitted to probate as the will of such real
estate and entered of record in the proper clerk's office: Protvided, however, That if any
devisee under any such subsequently executed will is at the time of the testator's death an
infant, or insane, or a convict, the limitation created by this section shall not affect the rights
of any such infant, insane person or convict until after the expiration of one year from the
removal of such disability.

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