LawgistThe Hindu Succession Act
21Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths
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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General provisions relating to succession
- 18 Full blood preferred to half blood
- 19 Mode of succession of two or more heirs
- 20 Right of child in womb
- 21 Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths
- 22 Preferential right to acquire property in certain cases
- 23 Omitted
- 24 Omitted
- 25 Murderer disqualified
- 26 Convert’s descendants disqualified
- 27 Succession when heir disqualifie
- 28 Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualif
