Section One: United States
I. Legal history
II. Probate proceedings
III. Uniform law
IV. Law of Louisiana
V. Ordinary proceedings; the presumption of death
1. Absence
2. Search
3. Rebuttal of the presumption
4. Time of death
5. Mysterious disappearance
VI. Fatal accidents
VII. Life insurance
VIII. War
IX. Bigamy
X. Simultaneous death
Section Two: Europe
I. Disappearance of jews
II. The statutes
1. Declaration of death
2. Deportations
3. Bigamy
4. Simultaneous Death
Section Three: Cases with a foreign element
I. United States
II. Europe
III. Proposed convention
Charts
Chart A: Statutes concerning the declaration of death by probate courts
Chart B: Declaration of death in european countries
Chart C: May foreign nationals and stateless persons be declared dead?