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  "heading": "Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead",
  "text": "A person who is presumed to be dead or who has been declared dead at a time a succession would have been opened in his favor cannot be a successor. The estate of the deceased devolves as if that person were dead at the time of the opening of the succession.",
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