necessary implication

necessary implication
n. An implication that is very likely to be true.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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  • necessary implication — A meaning derived from language as a matter of actual necessity or of so strong a probability of the intent of the writer or speaker that a contrary intent is not reasonably to be inferred. Detroit Citizens Street Railway Co. v Detroit (CA6 Mich) …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • implication — im·pli·ca·tion /ˌim plə kā shən/ n 1: the act of implicating: the state of being implicated 2: the act of implying: the state of being implied 3: something implied Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • Implication — Im pli*ca tion, n. [L. implicatio: cf. F. implication.] 1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. [1913 Webster] Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • necessary — I (inescapable) adjective avoidless, certain, choiceless, compelling, constraining, decided, decreed, designated, destined, expected, fated, fateful, fixed, foreordained, imminent, impending, ineluctable, includible, inevitable, inexorable,… …   Law dictionary

  • necessary — This word must be considered in the connection in which it is used, as it is a word susceptible of various meanings. It may import absolute physical necessity or inevitability, or it may import that which is only convenient, useful, appropriate,… …   Black's law dictionary

  • necessary — This word must be considered in the connection in which it is used, as it is a word susceptible of various meanings. It may import absolute physical necessity or inevitability, or it may import that which is only convenient, useful, appropriate,… …   Black's law dictionary

  • heirs at law shall not be disinherited by conjecture, but only by express words or necessary implication — Maxim which means that ancestor must clearly cut off heir and that such disinheritance is not lightly inferred …   Black's law dictionary

  • heirs at law shall not be disinherited by conjecture, but only by express words or necessary implication — Maxim which means that ancestor must clearly cut off heir and that such disinheritance is not lightly inferred …   Black's law dictionary

  • Necessary and sufficient condition — This article is about the formal terminology in logic. For causal meanings of the terms, see Causality. In logic, the words necessity and sufficiency refer to the implicational relationships between statements. The assertion that one statement is …   Wikipedia

  • necessary, essential — These words are used interchangeably to mean indispensable or requisite for the fulfillment or accomplishment of something. What is necessary or essential cannot be done without, cannot be dispensed with: Water is necessary (or essential) to… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

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