                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 64.2-2500)

As used in this chapter:
		&#8220;Decedent&#8221; means any person whose life has been taken as a result
of murder or voluntary manslaughter.
		&#8220;Property&#8221; includes any real and personal property and any right
or interest therein.
		&#8220;Slayer&#8221; means any person (i) who is convicted of the murder or
voluntary manslaughter of the decedent or, (ii) in the absence of such
conviction, who is determined, whether before or after his death, by a court of
appropriate jurisdiction by a preponderance of the evidence to have committed
one of the offenses listed in clause (i) resulting in the death of the decedent.
For the purposes of clause (ii), the party seeking to establish that a decedent
was slain by such person shall have the burden of proof.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 469, § 55-401; 1987, c. 498; 2008, cc. 822, 830; 2012, c.
614.