Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 91-1-25 (2026)
Person who has killed another not to inherit from him
✓ current as of July 2026
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.
Codes, 1892, § 1554; 1906, § 1660; Hemingway's 1917, § 1392; 1930, § 1413; 1942, § 479; Laws, 1992, ch. 311, § 1, eff. 7/1/1992.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 22
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1978–2026 · leading case: In Re Est. of Miller, 840 So. 2d 703 (Miss. 2003).
In Re Est. of Miller, 840 So. 2d 703 (Miss. 2003). “Jeanette asserted that Martha's estate should be recognized as an heir at law to Byron's estate thereby entitling it to a child's share.”
Johnson v. Howell, 592 So. 2d 998 (Miss. 1991). “§ 91-1-25 (1972) prohibited slayers from inheriting from their victims; [1] further, the petition named the Appellees, or their predecessor in interest, as the persons who would inherit if Keith was found to be precluded from inheriting.”
Carambat v. Carambat, 72 So. 3d 505 (Miss. 2011). “Regardless of the legal status of marihuana, granting a divorce based on illegal conduct is not in the spirit of the common law. An instructive analogy can be made to the legal problem that was resolved by modern slayer's statutes, like that Mississippi has enacted.”
Ford v. Ford, 512 A.2d 389 (Md. 1986). “1986); Miss. Code Ann. § 91-1-25 (1972); Mont. Code Ann.”
Washington v. Am. Heritage Life Ins., 500 F. Supp. 2d 610 (N.D. Miss. 2007). “tifícate and Thomas Washington’s own words, combined with the knowledge that Ola Washington had been stabbed a month prior to her death and her husband and the beneficiary of her life insurance proceeds had been arrested for the stabbing, American Heritage decided to investigate…”
Young v. O'Beirne, 147 So. 3d 877 (Miss. Ct. App. 2014). “The statute applicable to these facts is Mississippi Code Annotated section 91-1-25 (Rev.2013), which provides that “[i]f any person wilfully cause[s] or procure[s] the death of another in any way, he shall not inherit the property, real or personal, of such other; but the same…”
Davis v. Cont'l Cas. Co., 560 F. Supp. 723 (N.D. Miss. 1983). “Miss.Code Ann. §§ 91-1-25, 91-5-33 (1972).”
Veselits v. Cruthirds, 548 So. 2d 1312 (Miss. 1989). “Cruthirds was appointed guardian of Stephine's estate, and pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated § 91-1-25 (1972), was authorized in two separate proceedings in the U.”
Hood v. Vandevender, 661 So. 2d 198 (Miss. 1995). “1972 §§ 91-1-25, 91-5-33. 1 The chancellor observed that in Franklin Life Ins.”
John R. Armstrong v. Terry L. Armstrong, 170 So. 3d 510 (Miss. 2015). “Whether an individual charged with murder but not tried due to mental incapacity may be precluded from inheriting under the Mississippi slayer statutes, Mississippi Code Annotated §§ 91-1-25 and 91-5-33. III. Whether the Executor presented sufficient evidence to prove that the…”
Dill v. S. Farm Bureau Life Ins. Co., 797 So. 2d 858 (Miss. 2001). “§ 91-1-25 (1994), which prohibits inheritance by an heir who wilfully causes or procures the death of a decedent.”
California-W. States Life Ins. v. Sanford, 515 F. Supp. 524 (E.D. La. 1981). “536 (West 1964); Miss.Code Ann. § 91-1-25 (1973); 20 Pa.Cons.”
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