noun
adjudication of disappearance; declaration of presumed death
A legal procedure in which a court declares a missing person legally dead after a certain period of disappearance.
失踪宣告を受けると、相続手続きが開始される。
When an adjudication of disappearance is issued, inheritance procedures begin.
彼は7年間行方不明だったため、家族が失踪宣告を申し立てた。
Because he had been missing for seven years, his family petitioned for a declaration of presumed death.