Artificial Presumptions

In the law of evidence. Presumptions (otherwise termed "legal") which derive from the law a technical or artificial operation and effect beyond their mere natural tendency to belief. AS (Lat.) A pound. It was composed of twelve ounces. The parts were reckoned, as may be seen in the law, servum de haeredibus (Inst. lib. 13, Pandect) as follows: Uncia, 1 ounce; sextans, 2 ounces; triens, 3 ounces; quadrans, 4 ounces; quincunx, 5 ounces; semis, 6 ounces; septunx, 7 ounces; bes, 8 ounces; dodrans, 9 ounces; dextoMS, 10 ounces; deunx, 11 ounces. The whole of a thing, solidum quid. Thus, OS signified the whole of an inheritance, so that an heii ex osse was an heir of the whole inheritance. An heir ex triente, ex semisse, ex besse, or ex deunce was an heir of onethird, one-half, two-thirds, or eleventwelfths.