Hindu Succession Act
Hindu Succession Act
CHAPTER II — INTESTATE SUCCESSION · Section 21

Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths

Synced on 13 Aug 2026Text as per India Code

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.

Judgments on Section 21