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Presumption of Survivorship Act 1921
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2 Presumption of survivorship
In all cases where two or more persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain which of them survived, their deaths shall for all purposes affecting the title to any property be presumed to have taken place in order of seniority, and the younger be presumed to have survived the elder.