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• Presumption — • A product of pride, and a vice opposed to the theological virtue of hope • A term signifying a reasonable conjecture concerning something doubtful, drawn from arguments and appearances, which by the force of circumstances can be accepted as a… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Presumption of innocence — The of innocencendash being innocent until proven guiltyndash is a legal right that the accused in criminal trials has in many modern nations. The burden of proof is thus on the prosecution, which has to collect and present enough compelling… …   Wikipedia

• presumption — An inference in favor of a particular fact. A presumption is a rule of law, statutory or judicial, by which finding of a basic fact gives rise to existence of presumed fact, until presumption is rebutted. Van Wart v. Cook, Okl.App., 557 P.2d 1161 …   Black's law dictionary

• Presumption of constitutionality — A presumption of constitutionality shifts the burden of proof from the government to the citizen, requiring them to prove that a statute is unconstitutional. This presumption has ancient roots. For example, Alexander Hamilton explained in 1788… …   Wikipedia

• presumption of innocence — The presumption in a criminal prosecution that the accused is innocent until he is proved guilty, a presumption which places upon the state the burden of proof of guilt and, according to some authority, is of evidentiary value in favor of the… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• A Presumption of Death — infobox Book | name = A Presumption of Death title orig = translator = image caption = Early paperback edition cover author = Jill Paton Walsh cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = Lord Peter Wimsey genre = Mystery… …   Wikipedia

• Common-law marriage in the United States — was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in Meister v. Moore (96 U.S. 76 (1877)), which ruled that Michigan had not abolished common law marriage merely by producing a statute establishing rules for the solemnization of marriages. Common… …   Wikipedia

• Rule in Clayton's Case — The rule in Clayton s Case (or, to give it its full legal name and citation: Devaynes v Noble (Clayton s Case) (1816) 1 Mer 572) is a common law presumption in relation to the distribution of monies from a bank account. The rule is based upon the …   Wikipedia

• Tacking (law) — Tacking is a technical legal concept arising under the common law relating to competing priorities between two or more security interests arising over the same asset. The concept is best illustrated by way of example. # Bank A lends a first… …   Wikipedia

• survivorship — sur·vi·vor·ship n 1: the right of one or more joint tenants who have survived another to take the interest of the person who has died 2: the state of being a survivor Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid — Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 29, 1989 …   Wikipedia