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assumption
If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof. -
presumption of fact
a presumption based on experience or knowledge of the relationship between a known fact and a fact inferred from it. -
presumption of innocence
the rebuttable presumption of the innocence of the defendant in a criminal action in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, placing upon the prosecution the burden of proof of the defendant's guilt. -
presumption of law
a presumption based upon a policy of law or a general rule and not upon the facts or evidence in an individual case. -
presumption of survivorship
a presumption that one of two or more related persons was the last to die in a common disaster, made so that the estates may be settled and the final heirs determined. -
presumptuous
full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.