On the Existence of Irrefutable Legal Presumptions

The article criticizes the traditional approach to the definition of the concept of legal presumption and its legal properties. The possibility of the existence of legal presumptions that do not reflect the repeatability of life processes is ascertained. Based on the analysis of the current legislation and law enforcement practice of the highest judicial authorities, actual and legal presumptions, legal presumption and fiction are compared. There is a lack of practical expediency of comparing legal presumption and fiction according to the criterion of their truthfulness, compliance with the “natural course of things”. The thesis about the absolute necessity of the possibility of refuting the presumption is justified only in the context of solving the problem of objective establishment of the circumstances of the case. However, the potential of legal presumptions is not limited by this framework. The results obtained allowed the author to come to the conclusion about the possibility of the existence of irrefutable legal presumptions.