Section 25 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 embodies the principle:

Section 25 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 disqualifies a person who "commits murder or abets the commission of murder" from inheriting from the victim, giving statutory form to the maxim that a wrongdoer must not benefit from his own wrong. The rule against being a judge in one's own cause belongs to natural justice, and the other maxims concern equity and mistakes of law.