A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.


King v. Burdett (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 140.


A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human...

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human...

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human...

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human...