What is "facie"

Usage examples of "facie".

But if it be the nature of a thinking being, as seems, prima facie, to be the case, to form true or adequate thoughts, it is plain that inadequate ideas arise in us only because we are parts of a thinking being, whose thoughts - some in their entirety, others in fragments only - constitute our mind.

And this he endeavored to effect by twisting and forging testimonies, and botching up the old legends, so as to make out a prima facie proof of the Greek origin of the city of Rome.

The stash in his coat pocket Sunday night at the Jiffy Stop was red-handed prima facie evidence.

Even if it were true that counting the ballots, missed in the machine count, by nonuniform standards would constitute a prima facie violation of equal protection, that conclusion could not survive if the only remedy for that violation itself created a far more serious equal-protection violation, as it did in this case.

If the facts were as appears, they permit the hope that a document of so much prima facie importance may have escaped destruction, and will yet be found among the private papers of some of the last survivors of the Adventurers, though with the acquisition of all their interests by the Pilgrim leaders such documents would seem, of right, to have become the property of the purchasers, and to have been transferred to the Plymouth planters.

If this, or something like this, is true, then all these medications are, prima facie, injurious.

The idea that two heroin pushers in a white Cadillac convertible would be dragging up and down the Strip, abusing total strangers at stoplights, was prima facie absurd.

Because the committal hearing's only purpose was to decide whether the prosecution had a prima facie case against the accused, usually only the prosecution would put their case before the magistrates.

So long as all the changes in the appearances of a body are thus correlated there is no pressing prima facie need to break up the system of appearances, or to realize that the body in question is not really one thing but a set of correlated particulars.

In addition, if the moving party establishes a prima facie case of copyright infringement, then a presumption of irreparable harm arises.

I don't think they have established a prima facie case because what it all boils down to is Tesslar's word against Kelno's.

Harlowe's pearl necklace, make out a prima facie case for inquiry.

Fielder - Flemming has managed, with considerable skill, to put together a prima facie case against me, though it was based on a mistaken assumption (I would point out to her that counsel is never constantly in and out of his client's premises, but meets him usually only in the presence of his solicitor, either at the former's place of business or in his own chambers), and I am quite ready, if this meeting thinks it advisable, for the matter to be investigated officially.

It's a prima facie case of first degree murder, and you can simplify matters for everybody by keeping out of it.

My modest ambition tops out at a prima facie case followed by a search of his house and some nice detailed investigation by a persistent examining magistrate.