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Conjecture

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A slight degree of credence, arising from evidence too weak or too remote to cause belief.

1 Mascardus de Prob. quaest. 14, note 14.

An idea or notion founded on a probability, without any demonstration of its truth.