Artificial Presumptions
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the law of evidence. Presumptions (otherwise termed "legal") which derive from the law a technical or artificial operation and effect beyond their mere natural tendency to belief. AS (Lat.) A pound. It was composed of twelve ounces. The parts were reckoned, as may be seen in the law, servum de haeredibus (Inst. lib. 13, Pandect) as follows: Uncia, 1 ounce; sextans, 2 ounces; triens, 3 ounces; quadrans, 4 ounces; quincunx, 5 ounces; semis, 6 ounces; septunx, 7 ounces; bes, 8 ounces; dodrans, 9 ounces; dextoMS, 10 ounces; deunx, 11 ounces. The whole of a thing, solidum quid. Thus, OS signified the whole of an inheritance, so that an heii ex osse was an heir of the whole inheritance. An heir ex triente, ex semisse, ex besse, or ex deunce was an heir of onethird, one-half, two-thirds, or eleventwelfths.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Also called "legal presumptions;" those which derive their force and effect from the law, rather than their natural tendency to produce belief. 3 Starkie, Ev. 1235. Gulick v. Loder, 13 N. J. Law, 72, 23 Am. Dec. 711.
Defined under Artificial in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Also called “legal presumptions;” those which derive their force and effect from the law, rather than their natural tendency to produce belief. 3 Starkie, Ev. 1235.