In canon law. A fund or revenue appropri ated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. […]

Concrete in which steel bars have an increased resistance to stress due to the compression effect created by the stretching and anchoring of it.

a term that is used for a thing that is assumed to be true.

a term that means to believe, acceot as true or to assume.

See PR^ESUMPTIO; PRESUMPTION .

main direction and administration of their concerns. Roe v. Bank of Versailles, 167 Mo. 406, 67 S. W. 303. The chief executive magistrate of a state or nation, particularly under […]

the assumption used when a person is thought to be dead based on them not being seen in many years. See legally dead .

the logical conclusion that is based unproved facts that are related to the matter in hand.

A system that is prevalent in the Commonwealth Nations where a defendant who enters trial is presumed to be innocent of the crime. However, this presumption only holds until the […]

the assumption that is created by a law that exists and forces the court to make a certain conclusion.

The presumption that the actions are performed correctly and in good faith by the concerned people.

The legal presumption that the convicted individual was in the right state of mind when the crime was commited and therefore will be convicted.

1. The assumption that one person has survived another when they both died in the same accident. 2. The assumption that a person is still alive even though no one […]

The legal presumption that all the involved parties in the signing of a bill of exchange are assumed to be a part for the value of the bill.

the term used for the inferences and assumptions that are recognised by law due to their frequent occurrence, importance and believability.

A term occasionally used as the equivalent of “exemplary” or “punitive” damages. Murphv v. Hobbs. 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119, 49 Am. Rep. 300

See presumption of death .

A presumed disability that is deemed to be permanent and involved the loss of limbs, vision or hearing. Individuals bearing such disabilities do not have to undergo medical tests to […]

evidence that is considered to be fact until proven otherwise, circumstantial evidence or indirect evidence .

In French law . Loan. A contract by which one of the parties delivers an article to the other, to be used by the latter, on condition of his returning, […]

To feign or simulate; to hold that out as real which is false or baseless. Rrown v. Perez (Tex. Civ. App.) 25 S. W. 9S3; Powell v. Yeazel, 40 Neb. […]

See FALSE PRETENSE.

Where one is iu possession of land, and another, who is out of possession, claims and sues for it Here the preteused right or title is said to be in […]

Allegations sometimes made in a bill In chancery for the purpose of negativing an anticipated defense. Hunt, Eq. pt I. c. 1.

In French law . The claim made to a thing which a party believes himself entitled to demand, but which is not admitted or adjudged to be his.