If any person wilfully cause or procure the death of another in any way, he shall not inherit the property, real or personal, of such other; but the same shall descend as if the person so causing or procuring the death had predeceased the person whose death he perpetrated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-1-25
Person who has killed another not to inherit from him
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Ford v. Ford (1986)
Most recently applied in 500 F. Supp. 2d 610 - Washington v. American Heritage Life Insurance (July 2007)
Codes, 1892, § 1554; 1906, § 1660; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1392; 1930, § 1413; 1942, § 479; Laws, 1992, ch. 311, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1992.
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