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Simultaneous death of the estate leaver and the successor.— If the estate leaver and those who succeed him, either by virtue of a will or by operation of law, die simultaneously in the same accident or on the same day and it is not possible to ascertain who died the first, it shall be presumed that all died at the same time and there will be no transmission of the inheritance or the legacy as between them. CHAPTER II Opening of the inheritance, competence to succeed and transmission of ownership and possession