{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:106","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Corpse Not Found. - 1. Judgment Declaring Death","number":"106","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/106/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK I - PERSONS","title":"TITLE I - NATURAL PERSONS","chapter":"Chapter 3. - Proof of Civil Status","section":"Section 3. - Records of Civil Status","paragraph":"Paragraph 3. - Records of Death"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where a person has disappeared in such circumstances that his death is certain, although his corpse has not been found, any interested person may apply to the Court to give a judgment declaring the death of such person.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/106/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":46,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/46/?article=106&paragraph=p1#article-106-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The judgment declaring the death shall take the place of a record of death.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/106/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":46,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/46/?article=106&paragraph=p2#article-106-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"After the judgment has become final declaring that there has been a death, the Court registrar is obliged to notify the civil status officer of the place where, the event which brought about the death has occurred and the civil status officer of the place of the principal residence of the deceased at the time of his death. These civil status officers shall transcribe the dispositions of the judgment onto their registers of deaths.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/106/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":46,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/46/?article=106&paragraph=p3#article-106-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}