presumption

Yet, in contradiction to all these very plausible presumptions, even this remote period teems with its own peculiar and separate instruction.

The presumption is that an event has taken place.

Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:

I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe

Haue to their names tytles of dignitie,

And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?

The state, in the exercise of its general power to prescribe rules of evidence, may provide that proof of a particular fact, or of several facts taken collectively, shall be prima facie evidence of another fact when there is some rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed. The legislative presumption is invalid when it is entirely arbitrary, or creates an invidious discrimination, or operates to deprive a party of a reasonable opportunity to present the pertinent facts in his defense.