Skip to content- Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per praesumptionem remotam vel causam ex post facto non fulcitur. A useless clause or disposition is not supported by a remote presumption or by a cause arising afterward. • A useless clause or disposition is one that expresses no more than the law by intendment would have supplied; it is not supported by a remote presumption or foreign intendment of some purpose in regard to which it might be material, or by a cause arising afterward that may induce an operation of those idle words.
- In favorem vitae, libertatis, et innocentiae omnia praesumuntur. All presumptions are in favor of life, liberty, and innocence.
- Nobiliores et benigniores praesumptiones in dubiis sunt praeferendae. When in doubt, the more generous and kind presumptions are to be preferred.
- Nulla impossibilia aut inhonesta sunt praesumenda; vera autem et honesta et possibilia. No impossible or dishonorable things are to be presumed; but things true, honorable, and possible.
- Odiosa et inhonesta non sunt in lege praesumenda. Odious and dishonest acts are not to be presumed in law.
- Omnia praesumuntur contra spoliatorem. All presumptions are against one who wrongfully dispossesses another (a despoiler).
- Praesumatur pro justitia sententiae. Let there be a presumption of sentence’s justice.
- Praesumitur pro legitimatione. There is a presumption in favor of legitimacy.
- Praesumitur rex habere omnia jura in scrinio pectoris sui. The king is presumed to have all law in the recess of his heart. Co. Litt. 99a.
- Praesumptio cedit veritati. A presumption yields to the truth.
- Praesumptio ex eo quod plerumque fit. A presumption arises from what generally happens.
- Praesumptio juris et de jure. A presumption of right and by right (i.e, conclusive).
- Praesumptiones sunt conjecturae ex signo verisimili ad probandum assumptae. Presumptions are conjectures based on indications of probable truth, assumed for the purpose of establishing proof.
- Praesumptio opponitur probationi. A presumption is distinguished from proof.
- Praesumptio violenta plena probatio. Forceful presumption is full proof.
- Praesumptio violenta valet in lege. Forceful presumption is effective in law.
- Pro possessione praesumitur de jure. From possession arises a presumption of right.
- Semper praesumitur pro legitimatione puerorum, et filiatio non potest probari. The presumption always is in favor of the legitimacy of children, and filiation cannot be proved.
- Semper praesumitur pro negante. The presumption is always in favor of the defendant (the one who denies).
- Semper praesumitur pro sententia. The presumption is always in favor of a judgment (or sentence).
- Semper pro matrimonio praesumitur. There is always a presumption in favor of marriage.
- Stabit praesumptio donec probetur in contrarium. A presumption will stand until proof is given to the contrary.
- Violenta praesumptio aliquando est plena probatio. A very powerful presumption is sometimes full proof.
