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31.

A person against whom an adjudication of disappearance has been made is deemed to have died at the completion of the period specified in the preceding article.

32.

if it is proved that the person who disappeared is living, or that he died at a time different from that specified in the preceding article, the court must upon the application of such person or of any person interested revoke the adjudication; but this does not affect the validity of acts done in good faith between the adjudication and the revocation.

A person who has acquired property under the adjudication but loses his right by its revocation is bound to restore such property only so far as he is still enriched by it.

Chapter II.
Juridical Persons.[1]

Section I.
Creation of Juridical Persons.

33.

A juridical person can come into existence only by

  1. ↑ The usual term in the English law is “artificial persons;” but “juridical persons” is also used by recent writers, and is a closer rendering of the Japanese word. The expression “legal persons” cannot be used here.
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