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California Penal Code

§ 191

PEN § 191Title 8 · Part 1 · Ch. 1
The rules of the common law, distinguishing the killing of a master by his servant, and of a husband by his wife, as petit treason, are abolished, and these offenses are homicides, punishable in the manner prescribed by this Chapter.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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