Blacks Law - 4th Edition
CONJECTURE
CLEAR. Obvious; beyond reasonable doubt; perspicuous;
plain.
Free from all limitation, qualification, question, or shortcoming.
Condorodis v. Kling, 33 Ohio App. 452, 169 N.E.
836, 838. Ex parte Williams, 128 Tex.Cr.R. 148, 79 S.W.2d
325, 326; Free from incumbrance, obstruction, burden,
limitation, etc., Frank v. Murphy, 64 Ohio App. 501, 29 N.E.
2d 41, 43; Plain, evident, free from doubt or conjecture,
also unincumbered, free from deductions or drawbacks,
Ketch v. Smith, 131 Okl. 263, 268 P. 715, 717. That which
can be seen without dimness, Bremner v. Marc Eidlitz &
Son, 118 Conn. 666, 174 A. 172, 174.
CONJECTURE. A slight degree of credence, arising
from evidence too weak or too remote to cause
belief. Weed v. Scofield, 73 Conn. 670, 49 A. 22-,
1 Mascardus, De Prob. qust. 14, n. 14. Supposition
or surmise. The idea of a fact, suggested by
another fact; as a possible cause, concomitant, or
result. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 27. An idea or notion
founded on a probability without any demonstration
of its truth; an idea or surmise inducing a
slight degree of belief founded upon some possible,
or perhaps probable fact of which there is no positive
evidence. Oklahoma City v. Wilcoxson, 173
Okl. 433, 48 P.2d 1039, 1043. An explanation consistent
with but not deducible as a reasonable inference
from known facts or conditions. Southern
Ry. Co. v. Dickson, 211 Ala. 481, 100 So. 665, 669.
In popular use, synonymous with "guess." Fedorawicz
v. Citizens' Electric Illuminating Co., 246
Pa. 141, 92 A. 124, 125.
Also, the bringing together of the circumstances,
as well as the result obtained. Reynolds v.
Maryland Casualty Co., 274 Mo. 83, 201 S.W. 1128,
1133.
CLEAR. Obvious; beyond reasonable doubt; perspicuous;
plain.
Free from all limitation, qualification, question, or shortcoming.
Condorodis v. Kling, 33 Ohio App. 452, 169 N.E.
836, 838. Ex parte Williams, 128 Tex.Cr.R. 148, 79 S.W.2d
325, 326; Free from incumbrance, obstruction, burden,
limitation, etc., Frank v. Murphy, 64 Ohio App. 501, 29 N.E.
2d 41, 43; Plain, evident, free from doubt or conjecture,
also unincumbered, free from deductions or drawbacks,
Ketch v. Smith, 131 Okl. 263, 268 P. 715, 717. That which
can be seen without dimness, Bremner v. Marc Eidlitz &
Son, 118 Conn. 666, 174 A. 172, 174.
CONJECTURE. A slight degree of credence, arising
from evidence too weak or too remote to cause
belief. Weed v. Scofield, 73 Conn. 670, 49 A. 22-,
1 Mascardus, De Prob. qust. 14, n. 14. Supposition
or surmise. The idea of a fact, suggested by
another fact; as a possible cause, concomitant, or
result. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 27. An idea or notion
founded on a probability without any demonstration
of its truth; an idea or surmise inducing a
slight degree of belief founded upon some possible,
or perhaps probable fact of which there is no positive
evidence. Oklahoma City v. Wilcoxson, 173
Okl. 433, 48 P.2d 1039, 1043. An explanation consistent
with but not deducible as a reasonable inference
from known facts or conditions. Southern
Ry. Co. v. Dickson, 211 Ala. 481, 100 So. 665, 669.
In popular use, synonymous with "guess." Fedorawicz
v. Citizens' Electric Illuminating Co., 246
Pa. 141, 92 A. 124, 125.
Also, the bringing together of the circumstances,
as well as the result obtained. Reynolds v.
Maryland Casualty Co., 274 Mo. 83, 201 S.W. 1128,
1133.