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implication
(Incriminating involvement), noun connection, crimination, culpability, enmeshment, entanglement, inculpation, linkAssociated 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 inferenceAssociated 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.
See also: affiliation, attribution, blame, caveat, conclusion, condemnation, connotation, content, context, deduction, entanglement, gist, hint, incrimination, inculpation, indicant, indication, inference, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, involvement, main point, meaning, mention, nuance, reference, referral, responsibility, signification, substance, suggestion
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.