Presumptions Quotes
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“Principle I : Legal rights are presumptive rights.”
“Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause.”
“How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment?”
“When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.”
“It is a strong presumption that that which never has been done cannot by law be done at all.”
“Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.”
“Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.”
“There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.”
“It is a familiar principle that all things are presumed to have been rightly done unless there is reasonable ground shown for doubting it.”
“He will steal himself into a man's favour and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after.”
“Presumption means nothing more than, as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.”
“Principle II : The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions : they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.”
“It is not so with Him that all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men.”
“If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.”
“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.”
“When one or more things are proved, from which our experience enables us to ascertain that another, not proved, must have happened, we presume that it did happen, as well in criminal as in civil cases.”
“Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.”
“No one can doubt that presumptions may be made in criminal as well as in civil cases. It is constantly the practice to act upon them, and I apprehend that more than one half of the persons convicted of crimes are convicted on presumptive evidence.”