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Artificial presumptions

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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.