Page 25 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 42. Civil personality is extinguished by

death.

The effect of death upon the rights and

obligations of the deceased is determined by

law, by contract and by will. (32a)

Article 43. If there is a doubt, as between two

or more persons who are called to succeed each

other, as to which of them died first, whoever

alleges the death of one prior to the other, shall

prove the same; in the absence of proof, it is

presumed that they died at the same time and

there shall be no transmission of rights from

one to the other. (33)