Article I. Declaration of Rights
Article I, Section 12
Constitution of the State of Tennessee
Official text
That no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate. The estate of such persons as shall destroy their own lives shall descend or vest as in case of natural death. If any person be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture in consequence thereof.
Source: Tennessee Blue Book 2025-2026 (Tennessee Secretary of State)
In plain English
A criminal conviction does not take away a family's inheritance ("corruption of blood") or forfeit the person's estate. The estates of those who take their own lives pass to heirs as usual, and an accidental death causes no forfeiture.
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