The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
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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Official India Code text: The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1713/1/AAA1956suc___30.pdf, 257,077 bytes, sha256 8ee27226825b9021...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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