The following may be declared unworthy to succeed:
1° He who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a correctional penalty for having voluntarily given or attempted to give death to the deceased;
2° He who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a correctional penalty for having voluntarily committed violence leading to the death of the deceased without intention to give it;
2° bis Anyone who has been sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal or correctional penalty for having committed torture and acts of barbarism, deliberate violence, rape or sexual assault against the deceased ;
3° One who is convicted of giving false testimony against the deceased in criminal proceedings;
4° One who is convicted of having voluntarily refrained from preventing either a crime or an offence against the bodily integrity of the deceased from which death resulted, when he could have done so without risk to himself or to third parties ;
5° Anyone who is convicted of slanderous denunciation against the deceased when, for the facts denounced, a criminal penalty was incurred.
Those who have committed the acts mentioned in 1° and 2° and in respect of whom, by reason of their death, the public prosecution could not be brought or has lapsed may also be declared unworthy of succession.