PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE

Definition: PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE

PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE

1. (Law), that which is derived from circumstances which necessarily or usually attend a fact, as distinct from direct evidence or positive proof; indirect or circumstantial evidence. ``Presumptive evidence of felony should be cautiously admitted.'' --Blackstone. The distinction, however, between direct and presumptive (or circumstantial) evidence is now generally abandoned; all evidence being now more or less direct and more or less presumptive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Evidence

Oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; (demonstration); evidence in chief.

Probability

Vraisemblance, verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility.

Arabic 

‏دليل إفتراضي. (various references)

Dutch

bewijs door vermoeden (inferential evidence, probable evidence). (various references)

French

preuve par présomption (probable evidence), évidence par présomption. (various references)

German

Beweis durch Vermutung (inferential evidence, probable evidence). (various references)

Pig Latin

esumptivepray evidenceay