Inference
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof. A deduction or conclusion from facts or propositions known to be true. Gates v. Hughes, 44 Wls. 836. When the facts are submitted to the court, the Judges draw the Inference; when they are to be ascertained by a Jury, the jury must do so. The witness is not permitted, as a general rule, to draw an inference and testify that to the court or Jury. It is his duty to state the facts simply as they occurred. Inferences differ from presumptions
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A process of reasoning, by which one fact is deduced from another; the conclusion arrived at by such process.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In the law of evidence, A truth or proposition drawn from another which issupposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to be established is deduced as a logical consequence frum other facts, ora state of facts, already proved or admitted. An inference is a deduction which the reason of the jury makes from the facts proved, without an express direction of law to that effect. Code Civil Proc. Cal. § 1958.