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implication

(Incriminating involvement), noun connection, crimination, culpability, enmeshment, entanglement, inculpation, link
Associated concepts: implication of a codefendant

implication

(Inference), noun allusion, broad meannng, coloring, connotation, hidden meaning, hint, import, indication, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, overtone, suggested meaning, suggestion, tacit inference
Associated concepts: easement by implication, gift by impliiation, grant by implication, necessary implication
Foreign phrases: Omissio eorum quae tacite insunt nihil operatur.The omission of those things which are tacitly expressed is unimportant.

IMPLICATION. An inference of something not directly declared, but arising from what is admitted or expressed.
2. It is a rule that when the law gives anything to a man, it gives him by implication all that is necessary for its enjoyment. It is also a rule that when a man accepts an office, he undertakes by implication to use it according to law, and by non-user he may forfeit it. 2 B1. Com. 152.
3. An estate in fee simple will pass by implication; 6 John.. R. 185; IS John. R. 31; 2 Binn. R. 464, 532; such implication must not only be a possible or probable one, but it must be plain and necessary that is, so strong a probability of intention that an intention contrary to that imputed to the testator cannot be supposed. 1 Ves. & B. 466; Willes, 141; 1 Ves. jr. 564; 14 John. R. 198. Vide, generally, Com. Dig. Estates by Devise, N 12, 13; 2 Rop. Leg. 342; 14 Vin. Ab. 341; 5 Ves. 805; 5 Ves. 582; 3 Ves. 676.

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