Skip to content

Presumption - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Sexton

is chosen by the incumbent, but sometimes by the parishioners, according to custom. There is, it seems, no presumption in law that the office of sexton in an ancient parish church is a freehold for life, Rex

Stabit prasumptio donec probetur in contrarium

Stabit prasumptio donec probetur in contrarium (Co. Rep. 71b), a presumption will stand good until the contrary is proved.

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

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Support

on Easements. The right of an owner to the support of surface in its natural position is a presumption of Common Law and not part of a grant of mines or power to work the same, and

Tail

not bound to pay off any charge or incumbrance affecting the estate; if, however, he do so, the presumption is that the meant to exonerate the estate (for he might, if he pleased, have acquired the fee-simple),

Unless the contrary is proved

Unless the contrary is proved, the words 'unless the contrary is proved' mean that the presumption raised by s. 4 has to be rebutted by proof and not by bare explanation which may be

Violenta prasesmptio aliquando est plena probatio

Violenta prasesmptio aliquando est plena probatio (Co. Litt. 6b), violent presumption is sometimes full proof.

Way

however, between them and highways, that the right to the soil of a navigable river is not, by presumption of law, in the owners of the adjoining lands. Ferries may be said to be common highways, as

Wills

of kin under the statute of Distributions; by the nineteenth s., that no will shall be revoked by presumption of an intention on the ground of alteration in circumstances; by the twentieth s., 'that no will or

Lawful marriage

Lawful marriage, The presumption in favour of a lawful marriage would thus arise where there was prolonged and continued cohabitation as husband

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial