Mysterious Disappearance Law and Legal Definition
The term 'mysterious disappearance' means a disappearance that is mysterious. To constitute a mysterious disappearance, the disappearance must be under unknown, puzzling, and baffling circumstances which stir up wonder, curiosity, or speculation, or under circumstances which are difficult to understand or explain.
Mysterious disappearance means a loss, the surrounding circumstances of which excluded the probability of theft. Nevertheless, the phrase is so vague and so difficult of interpretation that many companies issued policies wherein it was expressly stated that unexplained loss or mysterious disappearance would raise a presumption of theft. [Lovas v. St. Paul Ins. Cos., 240 N.W.2d 53, 58 (N.D. 1976)].
