CONJECTUR

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONJECTURE. Conjectures are ideas or notions founded on probabilities 
  without any demonstration of their truth. Mascardus has defined conjecture: 
  "rationable vestigium latentis veritatis, unde nascitur opinio sapientis;" 
  or a slight degree of credence arising from evidence too weak or too remote 
  to produce belief. De Prob. vol. i. quoest. 14, n. 14. See Dict. de Trevoux, 
  h.v.; Denisart, h.v.