Assertion: permissive presumption | /r/HasProperty | founded on policy of law
Facets:
value: regardless of factthe presumption
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: an inference as to the existence of a fact not certainly known that the law requires to be drawn from the known or proven existence of some other facta presumption that the law does not allow to be rebutted called alsocompare rebuttable presumption in this entrya presumption that a jury is required by law to make upon proof of a given fact compare permissive presumption in this entryan inference or presumption that a jury is allowed but not required to make from a given set of facts called alsocompare mandatory presumption in this entrya presumption founded on a previous experience or on general knowledge of a connection between a known fact and one inferred from ita rebuttable presumption in the favor of the defendant in a criminal action imposing on the prosecution the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubta permissive presumption that if a criminal defendant committed an act it was his or her intent to commit ita presumption (as of the innocence of a criminal defendant) founded on a rule or policy of law regardless of factthe presumption in the absence of direct evidence that of two or more persons dying in a common disaster (as a fire)