Section 1606: Exclusion from an inheritance for unworthiness

English translation

The following persons are excluded from an inheritance as being unworthy:

(1) a person against whom a final judgment has been given that he intentionally caused, or attempted to cause, the unlawful death of the de cujus, or of a person entitled to inherit before him;

(2) a person who accused the de cujus of an offence punishable by death and was himself found guilty by a final judgment of false accusation or of giving false evidence;

(3) a person who knew that the de cujus had been intentionally killed but did not report it so that the offender might be punished; but this does not apply if that person had not completed sixteen years of age, or was of unsound mind and unable to distinguish right from wrong, or if the killer was that person's spouse, or a direct ascendant or descendant of that person;

(4) a person who by fraud or duress caused the de cujus to make, revoke or alter, in whole or in part, a will concerning the estate, or prevented him from doing so;

(5) a person who forged, destroyed or concealed a will, in whole or in part.

The de cujus may withdraw the exclusion for unworthiness by a pardon given in writing.

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