2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 88 - Slayers
8801 - Definition of terms.

                                CHAPTER 88
                                 SLAYERS

     Sec.
     8801.  Definition of terms.
     8802.  Slayer not to acquire property as result of slaying.
     8803.  Descent, distribution, dower, curtesy, and statutory
            rights as survivor.
     8804.  Legacies.
     8805.  Tenancies by the entirety.
     8806.  Joint tenants, joint owners and joint obligees.
     8807.  Reversions and vested remainders.
     8808.  Interests dependent on survivorship or continuance
            of life.
     8809.  Contingent remainders and executory or other future
            interests.
     8810.  Powers of appointment.
     8811.  Proceeds of insurance.
     8812.  Bona fide payment by insurance company or obligor.
     8813.  Bona fide purchasers.
     8814.  Record of conviction as evidence.
     8814.1. Preadjudication rule.
     8815.  Broad construction; policy of State.

        Enactment.  Chapter 88 was added June 30, 1972, P.L.508,
     No.164, effective July 1, 1972.
        Cross References.  Chapter 88 is referred to in sections
     2106, 2507 of this title.
     § 8801.  Definition of terms.
        As used in this chapter:
        "Slayer."  Means any person who participates, either as a
     principal or as an accessory before the fact, in the willful and
     unlawful killing of any other person.
        "Decedent."  Means any person whose life is so taken.
        "Property."  Includes any real and personal property and any
     right or interest therein.