History of judgment on the death of the missing person in the Personal Status Law:
Article 205 states: The loss ends with the return of the missing person, his death, or his deemed dead at the age of eighty years of age. This is if the loss was not due to the military operations, and if it was due to that or in similar cases, it is permissible to judge his death after four years have passed since the date of his loss.
It is evident from the foregoing that the law was adopted by the Hanafi school of thought upon loss in normal circumstances, while the Hanbali school of thought was adopted upon the loss in conditions of war.
