1997 Minnesota Statutes

     576.141 Presumption of death from absence.  

    An absentee who is missing for a continuous period of four 
 years, during which, after diligent search, the absentee has not 
 been seen or heard of or from, and whose absence is not 
 satisfactorily explained, shall be presumed, in any action or 
 proceeding involving the property of the person, contractual or 
 property rights contingent upon the absentee's death or the 
 administration of the absentee's estate, to have died four years 
 after the date the unexplained absence commenced.  If the person 
 was exposed to a specific peril of death, that fact may be a 
 sufficient basis for determining that the absentee died less 
 than four years after the date the absence commenced.  

    HIST: 1974 c 447 s 11; 1986 c 444