Legal Definition and Related Resources of Surmise
Meaning of Surmise
A suggestion or allegation . A conjecture , made on slight evidence . A supposition.
Surmise Alternative Definition
(Law Fr. and Eng.) In old practice. Suggestion. “The plaintiff, upon a surmise of goods come to the hands of the executors, shall have a sci. fa.” 1 Leon. 68, 286; Hardr. 82, 811.
Synonyms of Surmise
verb
- apprehend
- assume
- auguran
- be of the opinion
- believe
- conceive
- conclude
- conjecture
- count
- deduce
- deem
- divine
- esteem
- fancy
- feel
- gather
- guess
- have an idea
- hazard a guess
- hypothesize
- imagine
- infer
- judge
- opine
- posit
- predicate
- presume
- presuppose
- regard
- speculate
- suppose
- suspect
- suspicari
- theorize
- think
- trow
- understand
- view
- ween
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Translation of Surmise , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Conjetura and other legal terms is available here.
- Conjetura
- Suposición
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Surmise
(You may find surmise at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
early 15c., legal, “a charge, a formal accusation,” from Old French surmise “accusation,” noun use of past participle of surmettre (see surmise (verb)). Meaning “inference, guess” is first found in English 1580s. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien. [Keats]
Grammar
This term is a verb.
Etimology of Surmise
(You may find surmise at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
c. 1400, in law, “to charge, allege,” from Old French surmis, past participle of surmettre “to accuse,” from sur- “upon” (see sur- (1)) + mettre “put,” from Latin mittere “to send” (see mission). Meaning “to infer conjecturally” is recorded from 1700, from the noun. Related: Surmised; surmising.
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