失しっ踪そう宣せん告こく

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.

• 失しっ踪そう宣せん告こくを受うけると、相そう続ぞく手て続つづきが開かい始しされる。

  When an adjudication of disappearance is issued, inheritance procedures begin.

• 彼かれは7年ねん間かん行方ゆくえ不ふ明めいだったため、家か族ぞくが失しっ踪そう宣せん告こくを申もうし立たてた。

  Because he had been missing for seven years, his family petitioned for a declaration of presumed death.