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Law of Property Act 2000
217Presumption of survivorship
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217 Presumption of survivorship
In any other case affecting the title to property or the appointment of
trustees not referred to in this Part:
(a) if:
(i) 2 or more persons die;
(ii) 2 or more persons are presumed dead; or
(iii) one or more persons die and one or more persons are
presumed dead; and
(b) the circumstances of those person's deaths or presumed
deaths gives rise to reasonable doubts as to which of those
persons survived the other or others,
the deaths or presumed deaths or deaths and presumed deaths are
presumed to have occurred in order of seniority and, accordingly,
the younger is presumed to have survived the elder.