Article 1025

The heirs of a continuously absent person whose whereabouts are unknown can apply to the court, before the issue of the judgment of his presumed death, asking that his estate may be delivered into their possession, provided, firstly, that the missing person has not already appointed a person for the administration of his estate and, secondly, that two full years may have passed from the date that the last news from the continuously absent person were received and that during the period it has not been known whether the man is still alive or dead . In respect of this Article, the stipulations of Article 1023 concerning the publication of a notice and the notice of one year must categorically be observed.