SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time Tuesday in signing a contentious California bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country following an outbreak of measles at Disneyland late last year.
rebuttal - the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument. refutation, defence, defense - the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive; in defense he said the other man started it.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Both in common law and in civil law, a rebuttable presumption (in Latin, praesumptio iuris tantum) is an assumption made by a court, one that is taken to be true unless someone comes forward to contest it and prove otherwise.For example, a defendant in a criminal case is presumed innocent until proved guilty.A rebuttable presumption is often associated with prima facie evidence. Rebuttable presumptions in criminal law are somewhat controversial in that they do effectively reverse the presumption of innocence in some cases.or example, a defendant in a criminal case is presumed innocent until proved guilty. A rebuttable presumption is often associated with prima facie evidence. Rebuttable presumptions in criminal law are somewhat controversial in that they do effectively reverse the presumption of innocence in some cases.