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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person
§ 18.2-45. Persons suffering death from mob attempting to lynch another person
Universal Citation: VA Code § 18.2-45 (2019)
Every person suffering death from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this article, and his personal representative shall be entitled to relief in the same manner and to the same extent as if he were the originally intended victim of such mob.
Code 1950, ยง 18.1-34; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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