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Conceptions and tipologies of presumptions in civil law

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  • Raymundo Gama Leyva Doctor en derecho. Profesor de tiempo completo del Departamento Académico de Derecho del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Ciudad de México
No. 19 (2013): Segundo semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i19.36187

Abstract

This article examines some persistent problems in the analysis of presumptions in the Civil Law tradition. On the one hand, it deals with the ambiguity of this expression in legal language as one of the main causes of legal controversy. On the other hand, it distinguishes to conceptions in the study of presumptions. Firstly, the traditional conception holds that presumptions are inferences of the legislator or the court drawn from a known fact to an unknown fact. According to this view, it is possible to formulate a general concept of presumption (genus) that purports to be applicable to the different types of presumptions. This conception is criticized and confronted with an analytical conception of presumptions that proposes to examine each type of presumption individually. The article underlies the distinction between presumption rules and presumptive inferences and proposes an explanation for the main types of presumptions in the Civil Law tradition.

Keywords:

Presumption, presumptive reasoning, burden of proof, inference, rebuttable presumptions, conclusive presumptions, permissible presumptions

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Gama Leyva, R. (2015). Conceptions and tipologies of presumptions in civil law. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (19), pp. 65–89. https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i19.36187
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Universidad de Chile
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