Hypothesis - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hypothesisReasonable hypothesis
Reasonable hypothesis, before a person can be con-victed on the strength of circumstantial evidence, the circumstances in question must be satisfactorily established and the proved circumstances must bring home the offence to the accused beyond reasonable doubt. If those circumstances or some of them can be explained by any other reasonable hypothesis then the accused must have the benefit of that hypothesis. But in assessing the evidence imaginary possibilities have no place. What is to be considered are ordinary human probabilities, Awadhi Yadav v. State of Bihar, AIR 1971 SC 69 (70): (1971) 3 SCC 116....
Hypothesis
A supposition a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question something not proved but assumed for the purpose of argument or to account for a fact or an occurrence as the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer...
Prima facie evidence
Prima facie evidence, that which, not being inconsis-tent with the falsity of the hypothesis, nevertheless raises such a degree of probability in its favour that it must prevail if it be credited by the jury, unless it be rebutted, or the contrary proved; conclusive evidence, on the other hand, is that which excludes, or at least tends to exclude, the possibility of the truth of any other hypothesis than the one attempted to be established....
confounding
tending to contradict a hypothesis...
Emboicirctement
The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preeumlxisting germs and that these encase the germs of all future living things inclosed one within another...
Experiment
A trial or special observation made to confirm or disprove something uncertain esp one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect or to test establish or illustrate some hypothesis theory or known truth practical test proof...
VerbarGastraeliga
A primeval larval form a double walled sac from which according to the hypothesis of Haeckel man and all other animals that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two layered structural stage or gastrula form must have descended This idea constitutes the Gastraeliga theory of Haeckel See Gastrula...
Hypothetic
Characterized by or of the nature of an hypothesis conditional assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon...
Hypothetist
One who proposes or supports an hypothesis...
Inogen
A complex nitrogenous substance which by Hermanns hypothesis is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles during their life...
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