Legal Definition and Related Resources of Infer

The term is derived from the Latin in ferre, compounded of in from and ferre to carry or bring, and in its strict meaning is to bring a result or conclusion from something back of it; that is from some evidence or data from which it may be logically deduced. Morford v Peck, 46 Conn. 380.

verb

• conclude
• conclude from evidence
• concludere
• conjecture
• conligere
• consider probable
• construe
• deduce
• derive
• derive by reasoning
• draw a conclusion
• draw an inference
• extract
• gather
• glean
• guess
• hint
• imply
• indicate
• insinuate
• intimate
• judge from premises
• posit
• postulate
• presume
• reach a conclusion
• reason
• reckon
• suppose
• surmise
• suspect
• understand Associated Concepts: infer guilt from the evidence

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