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title: O.C.G.A. § 24-14-20. Presumptions of law and of fact distinguished.
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# O.C.G.A. § 24-14-20. Presumptions of law and of fact distinguished.

Presumptions are either of law or of fact. Presumptions of law are conclusions and inferences which the law draws from given facts. Presumptions of fact shall be exclusively questions for the jury, to be decided by the ordinary test of human experience.

## History

Code 1981, § 24-14-20, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

## Law Reviews

For comment discussing the right to present evidence for the purposes of rebutting, in light of Vlandis v. Kline, 412 U.S. 441, 93 S. Ct. 2230, 37 L. Ed. 2d 63 (1973), see 10 Ga. St. B.J. 484 (1974).