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Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.

By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.

Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.

e whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right to the inheritance may be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative, or by some other contingency.

or possession. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Burke.