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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

That which is established by the mind of the law in its ack of consiruing facts, conduct, circumstances, or instruments; that which has not the character assigned to it in its own essential nature, but acquires such character in cunsequenee of the way in which it is regarded by a rule or policy of law; hence, inferred, implied, made out by legal interpretation.