Legal Version
(14) Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths -Sec.21
Where two persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain
whether either of them and if so which survived the other, than, for all
purposes affecting succession to property, it shall be presumed, until the
contrary is proved, that the younger survived the elder.
Simplified Version
(14) Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths-Sec.21
Where due to circumstances it is not possible to determine who died
first then it shall be presumed that the younger survived the elder.
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