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Definition of Presumptive

1. Adjective. Having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance. "The presumptive heir (or heir apparent)"

2. Adjective. Affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance. "A strong presumptive case is made out"

Definition of Presumptive

1. a. Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.

Definition of Presumptive

1. Adjective. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief ¹

2. Adjective. making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Presumptive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presumptive

presume presumed presumed(a) presumedly presumer presumers presumes presuming presumingly presummer

presummit presummits presumption presumptions presumptious presumptive (current term) presumptively presumptuous presumptuously presumptuousness

presupernova presupposal presupposals presuppose presupposed presupposes presupposing presupposition presuppositional presuppositionalism

Literary usage of Presumptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"presumptive PROOF IN CRIMINAL CASES GENERALLY Rules regulating the admissibility of evidence the same in civil and criminal proceedings 439 Necessity for ..."

2. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elemenatry Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, Charles Frederic Chamberlayne (1883)
"THE subject of presumptions and presumptive evidence i ... The principal forms of inculpatory presumptive evidence i criminal proceedings. ..."

3. Powell's Principles and Practice of the Law of Evidence by Edmund Powell, John Cutler, Charles Francis Cagney (1898)
"EVIDENCE is said to be presumptive, or Circumstantial, or Inferential, ... There is a considerable difference between Direct and presumptive Evidence, ..."

4. Elements of Water Bacteriology: With Special Reference to Sanitary Water by Samuel Cate Prescott, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1904)
"presumptive TESTS FOR B. COLI. THE isolation and identification of B. coli by the methods which have been described is a time-consuming and laborious ..."

5. Public Finance by M. E. Robinson (1922)
"presumptive Taxes and the Development of Personal Taxes. ... Pitt's Triple Assessment was a tax based on presumptive signs of wealth and preceded the ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1846)
"THE general head of presumptive EVIDENCE is usually divided into two ... The general doctrines of presumptive evidence are not therefore peculiar to ..."

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