Missing Persons Act

Missing Persons Act
Statute providing for the disposition of the property of a person by administration in the probate court where such person has been absent so long and under such circumstances pertaining to his disappearance and continued absence that he is reasonably and fairly presumed to be dead. 1 Am J2d Absent § 3. A federal statute relative to persons presumed to have been killed in action in the armed service and to certain other persons in government service. 50 USC Appx §§ 1001-1017.

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