Conjecture
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A slight degree of credence, arising from evidence too weak or too remote to cause belief.
1 Muscardus, De Prob. quaest 14, n. 14.
An idea or notion founded on a probability without any demonstration of its truth.