Article III: Presumptions

Abstract

The hodgepodge of rules known as presumptions includes rules of vastly varying importance, rules serving widely divergent purposes, and rules that may construct rules of decision. All of these have only two characteristics in common: 1) a relationship between an admitted or proved fact or group of facts and another fact which is sought to be proved, and 2) a label with a life of its own. Professor Larkin attempts to give some order to all these presumptions.