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Presumably

In a presumable manner by or according to presumption

Children

(s. 2) the seduction or prostitution, or unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under sixteen. The court can presume (s. 99) the age of a child or young persons and deal with the case accordingly, see ABUSING

Age

their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern

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Consideration

of a deed is attended by formalities from which a deliberate intention to make a binding promise is presumed. Valuable consideration may be described as the very life and soul of a simple contractor parol agreement. Valuable

Satisfaction

of a prior demand, so as to prevent such donee from claiming both. With regard to implied or presumable satisfactions, they have been divided in to the three following classes:- (1) The satisfaction of legacies by portions,

Implication

Implication, a necessary or presumable inference, not directly declared, arising out of acts or words in evidence (see Jarman or Theobald on Wills).

Marriage

which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential

Super falso et certo fingitur, super incerto et vero jure sumitur

fingitur, super incerto et vero jure sumitur, a fiction assumes that the thing feigned is certainly untrue: a presumption of law assumes that what is presumed is not certain to be true. No one ever believed that

Presumption of survivorship

Presumption of survivorship. Where two or more persons perish by the same calamity, the Civil Law presumes that the

Presumption of life or death

Presumption of life or death. Where a person is once shown to have been living, the law will in

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