Innocence
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
the absence of ilt. ‘The law always presumes in ee of innocence, even against another presumption of law: for example, when a woman marries a second husband within the space twelve months after her husband had left the country, the presumption of) innocence preponderates over the presumption of the continuance of) life.
2B. & A. 386; 3 Stark. Ev. 1249.