Civil Code · English · 2015
Article 106
Corpse Not Found. - 1. Judgment Declaring Death
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Where a person has disappeared in such circumstances that his death is certain, although his corpse has not been found, any interested person may apply to the Court to give a judgment declaring the death of such person.
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After the judgment has become final declaring that there has been a death, the Court registrar is obliged to notify the civil status officer of the place where, the event which brought about the death has occurred and the civil status officer of the place of the principal residence of the deceased at the time of his death. These civil status officers shall transcribe the dispositions of the judgment onto their registers of deaths.
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