Mera Samvidhaan All of Hindu Succession Act, 1956

Chapter II · Intestate Succession

21Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths.

Section 21 · Chapter II · General provisions relating to succession · pages 10–11 of the Act

Where two persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain whether either of them, and if so which, survived the other, then, for all purposes affecting succession to property, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the younger survived the elder.

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