Probable

^ Apparently true or real; seeming to be founded in fact or reason; reasonable: as, probable cause.

See Cause, 2; Doubt; Presumption; Prosecution, Malicious. ' The Nuestra Seflora De Eegla, 108 U. S. 101, 103 ' See 66 Ga. 715; 89 N. C. 513; 1 Bl. Com. 346; S id. 278; 3 id. 13, 243; 4 id. 261, 268. s Thomas v. Osborn, 10 How. 2!) (1866). •Pennimau v. Stanley, 122 Mass. 316 (1877); 7 How. Pr. 415. ' Rosenberg v. Frank, 58 Cal. 405 (1881): 19 Am.

Law Probably

An instruction, otherwise correct, was held not vitiated by the conclusion that " if there be a reasonable doubt whether the person premeditated to kill the deceased, or to do him bodily harm which would probably [necessarily] occasion death, the jury ought not to find the accused guilty of murder in the first degree." ' Probability. " Probab Uity " and "proof" each expresses a particular effect of evidence; but " proof " is the stronger term. The dictionaries give different definitions of " probability," as see Worcester and Webster.^ A committee of viewers reported that certain land would " in all probability " continue to be used for railroad freight purposes. Held, that if a degree of probability amounting to a practical certainty was Intended, the facts on which the conclusion was based should have been stated, that the court might see on what it rested; also, that a lighter degree of probability could not affect the case.'