The Tender For Law

Volume 1

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August le Blanc

REASON. A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions. Web- ster. Also an inducement, motive, or ground for action, as in the phrase "reasons for an appeal." Miller v. Miller, 8 Johns. (N.Y.) 77.

TO. This is ordinarily a word of exclusion, when used in describing premises; it excludes the term- inus mentioned. Littlefield v. Hubbard, 120 Me. 226, 113 A. 304, 306; Sinford v. Watts, 123 Me. 230, 122 A. 573, 574; Skeritt Inv. Co. v. City of Engle- wood, 79 Colo. 645, 248 P. 6, 8. It may be a word of inclusion, and may also mean "into." People v. Poole, 284 Ill. 39, 119 N.E. 916, 917; Thompson v. Reynolds, 59 Utah, 416, 204 P. 516, 518.

BELIEF. A conviction of the truth of a proposi- tion, existing subjectively in the mind, and induced by argument, persuasion, or proof addressed to thejudgment. Keller v. State, 102 Ga. 506, 31 S.E. 92 Latrobe v. J. H. Cross Co., D.C.Pa., 29 F.2d 210, 212. A conclusion arrived at from external sources after weighing probability. Ex parte State exrel. Attorney General, 100 So. 312, 313, 211 Ala. 1.

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