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After fifteen (15) years have passed since the day on which the provisional possession of the estate of the absentee was awarded or on which the husband or wife of said absentee took over the administration of the estate belonging to him or to her in accordance with the foregoing provisions, or after ninety (90) years have passed since the birth of the absentee, the Court of First Instance shall, on petition of any interested party, declare that he is presumably dead. History —Civil Code, 1930, § 56.