The Evidence Act 1872 was replaced by the BSA 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 108 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 170, BSA 2023).
[Provided that when] the question is whether a man is alive or dead, and it is proved that he has not been heard of for seven years by those who would naturally have heard of him if he had been alive, the burden of proving that he is alive is [shifted to] the person who affirms it. Substituted by Act 18 of 1872, S.9. Prior to the substitution it read as:- "When". Substituted by Act 18 of 1872, S.9. Prior to the substitution it read as:- "on".