§ 55.1-103 Suicide or attainder of felony
Neither suicide nor attainder of felony shall cause a corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
History
The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1919, as § 4762. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1950, when it was recodified as § 55-4; in 2019, chapter 712.
Code 1919, § 4762; Code 1950, § 55-4; 2019, c. 712.