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permissive inference

permissive inference : permissive presumption at presumption ...


presumption

presumption : an inference as to the existence of a fact not certainly known that the law requires to be drawn from the known or proven existence of some other fact conclusive presumption : a presumption that the law does not allow to be rebutted called also irrebuttable presumption compare rebuttable presumption in this entry mandatory presumption : a presumption that a jury is required by law to make upon proof of a given fact compare permissive presumption in this entry permissive presumption : an inference or presumption that a jury is allowed but not required to make from a given set of facts called also permissive inference compare mandatory presumption in this entry presumption of fact : a presumption founded on a previous experience or on general knowledge of a connection between a known fact and one inferred from it presumption of innocence : a rebuttable presumption in the favor of the defendant in a criminal action imposing on the prosecution the burden of proving g...


inference

inference 1 : the act or process of inferring ;specif : the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow logically from that of the former 2 : something inferred ;esp : a proposition arrived at by inference see also permissive presumption at presumption 3 : the premises and conclusions of a process of inferring ...


Error apparent on the face of award

Error apparent on the face of award, an 'error on the face of an award' means that the Court must first find whether there is any legal proposition which is the basis of such an award. Where an award is challenged upon such a ground it is not permissible to read words into it or to draw inferences and the award or the order must be taken as it stands. (AIR 1923 PC 66 followed), Bharat Barrel & Drum Mfg. Co. v. L.K. Bose, AIR 1967 SC 361 (368): (1967) 1 SCR 739....


Joint-tenancy

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...


Presumption of fact and presumption in of law

Presumption of fact and presumption in of law, presumptions are of three types: (1) Permissive presumptions or presumptions of fact. (2) Com-pelling presumptions or resumption of law (rebuttable). (3) Irrebuttable presumption of law or 'conclusive proof'. Classes (i), (ii) and (iii) are indicated in clauses (1), (2) and (3) respectively, of s. 4, Evidence Act. 'Presumptions of fact' are infer-ences of certain fact patterns drawn from the experience and observation of the common course of nature, the constitution of the human mind, the springs of human action, the usages and habits of society and ordinary course of human affairsS. 114 is a general s. dealing with presumptions of this kind. It is not obligatory for the Court to draw a presumption of fact. In respect of such pre-sumptions, the Act allows the judge a discretion in each case to decide whether the fact which under s. 114 may be presumed has been proved by virtue of that presumption. In case of a 'Presumption of Law' no discr...


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