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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.