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Article XVI, § 26 — HOMICIDE: LIABILITY FOR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES

Texas Const. art. XVI, § 26

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Every person, corporation, or company, that may commit a homicide, through wilful act, or omission, or gross neglect, shall be responsible, in exemplary damages, to the surviving husband, widow, heirs of his or her body, or such of them as there may be, without regard to any criminal proceeding that may or may not be had in relation to the homicide.

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History

Feb. 15, 1876.

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