Dictionary Definition
presumption
Noun
1 an assumption that is taken for granted [syn:
given, precondition]
2 (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from
other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
3 audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you
have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
[syn: presumptuousness,
effrontery, assumption]
4 a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of
presuming; "his presumption was intolerable"
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
Translations
the act of presuming, or something presumed
- Finnish: oletus
the belief of something based upon reasonable
evidence, or upon something known to be true
the condition upon which something is
presumed
arrogant behaviour
Extensive Definition
In the law
of evidence, a
presumption of a particular fact can be made without the aid of
proof in some situations. The types of presumption includes a
rebuttable discretionary presumption, a rebuttable mandatory
presumption, and an irrebutable or conclusive presumption. The
invocation of a presumption will normally shift the burden of
proof from one party to the opposing party in a court trial.
Presumptions are sometimes categorized into two types: presumptions
without basic facts, and presumptions with basic facts.
- types: Rebuttable presumption, Conclusive presumption
- examples of presumption without basic facts: Presumption of innocence,
- example of presumption with basic facts: Presumption of death, e.g law says if a person has missing for 7 years or more (basic fact), that person shall be presumed to be dead.
presumption in German: Vermutung (Recht)
presumption in Spanish: Presunción
(derecho)
presumption in French: Présomption
presumption in Hebrew: חזקה (הנחה מבוססת)
presumption in Russian: Презумпция
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adventurousness,
allegory, allusion, apriorism, aptitude, arcane meaning,
arrogance, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith,
attitude, audaciousness, audacity, axiom, basis, belief, bias, boldness, brashness, brass, brazenness, brinkmanship, bumptiousness, butting-in,
chance, cheek, cheekiness, cheerful
expectation, chutzpah,
climate of opinion, coloration, common belief,
community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, connotation, consensus
gentium, consideration, contumely, conviction, courage fou,
courting disaster, crust,
daredevilry,
daredeviltry,
daring, deduction, dependence, desire, doomed hope, effrontery, entailment, estimate, estimation, ethos, evidence, expectation, eye, face, fair expectation, fair
prospect, faith, familiarity, favorable
prospect, feasibility, feeling, fervent hope,
fire-eating, flirting with death, foolhardiness, forejudgment, forwardness, gall, general belief, going for
broke, good chance, good cheer, good hope, great expectations,
grounds, guess, guesswork, hardihood, harebrainedness, high
hopes, hint, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope,
hubris, hypothesis, idea, immodesty, impertinence, implication, implied
meaning, import, imposition, impression, impudence, inference, innuendo, inquisitiveness,
insolence, intermeddling, intimation, intrusiveness, involvement, ironic
suggestion, judgment,
lawlessness,
liability, liberties, liberty abused,
license, licentiousness, lights, likelihood, likeliness, meaning, meddlesomeness, meddling, metaphorical sense,
mind, mystique, nerve, notion, nuance, observation, obtrusiveness, occult
meaning, odds, officiousness, opinion, outlook, overconfidence, overtone, overweening, overweeningness, parti
pris, personal judgment, plausibility, playing with
fire, point of view, popular belief, posit, position, postulate, postulation, postulatum, posture, prayerful hope,
preapprehension,
preconception,
preconclusion,
preconsideration,
predecision,
predetermination,
predilection,
predisposition,
prejudgment,
prejudication,
prejudice, premature
judgment, premise,
premiss, prenotion, prepossession, presumptive
evidence, presumptuousness,
presupposal,
presupposition,
presurmise,
prevailing belief, pride,
probabilism,
probability,
procacity, promise, proposition, prospect, prospects, public belief,
public opinion, pushiness, reaction, reason, reasonable ground,
reasonable hope, reliance, sanguine expectation,
security, sentiment, set of postulates,
sight, stance, stand, subsense, subsidiary sense,
subsumption,
suggestion, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, suspicion, symbolism, temerity, tendency, theory, thesis, thinking, thought, tinge, touch, trust, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, undue liberty,
uppishness, uppityness, verisimilitude, view, way of thinking,
well-grounded hope, working hypothesis