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SUCCESSION ACT 2023 (NO 30 OF 2023) - SECT 126

126—Presumption of survivorship

Subject to this Act and any order of the Court, if 2 or more persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain which of them survived the other or others, such deaths will, for all purposes affecting title to property, be taken to have occurred in order of seniority, and accordingly the younger person will be taken to have survived the elder person for a period of 1 day.

Note—

This section applies subject to the operation of section 127

in respect of jointly-owned property.



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