Page 589 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. The presumption applies only to breaches of positive law or public Ditto of collateral facts required to give validity to instruments Consideration of notes Illustration Stamping documents Interlineations Date Attestation Contrasted presumption of interlineations in case of wills and deeds Pencil alterations Stamping ib. Presumption in favor of beneficial ownership Presumption of official appointment from acting in office Extension to offices not strictly public Presumption of consistency with course of business Illustration Presumption of ownership from possession How far conclusive, or rebuttable Strength of, from length of possession Lost grant Prescription Law on the subject in India Presumption from absence of possession Presumption in favor of stability Continuance of life Period of duration Mahomedan law Absence without tidings for seven years The presumption rebuttable by circumstances Absence, what Circumstances may create presumption at earlier period The legal presumption arises only at expiration of the term Presumption as to survivorship when all perish together ib. 593 ib. ib. ib. Mahomedan law Ditto Roman French law Ditto American English law raises no presumption Presumption applies to case of marine assurance Presumption arising from consistency with course of nature Presumption arising from particular relationships Presumption of legitimacy from marriage and opportunity of access General summary by Lord Langdale Influence of adultery on question of impotence Exclusion of wife's evidence on question of access Application of subject to India 613 ib. Period of cessation from child-bearing, and of gestation undefined Eastern nations 614 Mahomedan law ib. Presumption as to minimum period of birth from conception No presumptive limit to generative capacity Presumption against commission of crime by wife in presence of husband Exception when crime the personal one of the wife Presumption of husband's authority for goods ordered by wife When living together. When separate 615 ib. House divided into flats |