Article 1020

The following cases are of those in which a continuously absent person cannot ordinarily be supposed to be alive: 1 - When 10 full years have passed from the date of the last news received as to the life of the continuously absent person and at the expiry of the period his age has surpassed 75. 2 - When a person was included in an armed force under any denomination and disappeared during the war and till three years after the conclusion of peace no news are received from him. If the war is not terminated by the conclusion of a peace agreement, the period in question must be reckoned as five years from the date of conclusion of the war. 3 - When a man engaged in a sea voyage was on board of a ship which was wrecked in that voyage and three full years have passed from the date of wreckage of the ship in question and no news is received from him.