Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Hindu Succession Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-06-17

Long Title: An Act to amend and codify the law relating to intestate succession among Hindus.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 21: Presumption 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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