Rice v. Jones , 8 Va. 89 ( 1786 )

The judgment of the court of appeals was as follows:

“ The court this day gave their opinion, that the general court are not restrained from receiving any will, by which, lands, lying in this state, are devised, so far as the title of lands may be affected, although the same will may have been declared void by any court in any other of the United States, for any cause whatever.”