Probability
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Likelihood; consonance to reason; for sample, there is a strong probability that a man of good moral character, and who has heretofore been remark, able for truth, will, when examined as a witness under oath, tell the truth; and, on the contrary, that a man who has been guilty of perjury will not under the same circumstances, tell the truth. The former will therefore be entitled to credit, while the latter will not. It is not as strong an expression as "proof." "Demonstration produces certain