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Article 48 If a person is declared dead, the date of death shall be the date of judgment pronounced by the people's court; If a person is declared dead due to an accident whose whereabouts are unknown, the date of the accident shall be the date of death.
Article 49 If a natural person is declared dead but not dead, it shall not affect the validity of the civil juristic act carried out by the natural person during the period of being declared dead.
Article 50 If the person declared dead reappears, the people's court shall revoke the declaration of death upon the application of himself or an interested party.
Article 51 The marriage relationship of a person who has been declared dead shall be extinguished as of the date of death. If the declaration of death is revoked, the marriage relationship will resume on its own from the date of revocation, except that the spouse remarries or declares in writing to the marriage registration authority that he is unwilling to resume.
Article 52 If the children of a person who has been declared dead were adopted by others according to law during the period when he was declared dead, after the death declaration is revoked, the adoption relationship shall not be declared invalid on the grounds of his disagreement.
Article 53 A person whose death declaration has been revoked has the right to request the civil subject who obtained his property in accordance with the law of inheritance to return his property. If it cannot be returned, appropriate compensation shall be given.
If an interested party conceals the real situation, resulting in the death of another person and obtains his property, he shall not only return the property, but also bear the losses caused by it.
References:
China people * * * and the general principles of national laws _ Baidu Encyclopedia