Reviewing for the boards gave me a chance to study for the things not taught inside the classroom, especially for legal medicine. When two persons die in the same calamity, say a wreck, battle or conflagration, the survivorship is presumed according to the following:
- If both were under the age of 15 years, the older is presumed to have survived.
- If both were above the age of 60, the younger is presumed to have survived.
- If one is under 15 and the other above 60, the former is presumed to have survived.
- If both be over 15 and under 60, and the sexes be different, the male is presumed to have survived; if the sexes be the same, then the older.
- If one be under 15 or over 60, and the other between those ages, the latter is presumed to have survived.
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