onus probandi
Americannoun
noun
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If the record were received generally by any nation, the onus probandi would in that case lie with those who impugned it.
From Thoughts on a Revelation by S. J. (Samuel John) Jerram
In Russia, the onus probandi lies on the other side; private initiative is allowed to do nothing until it gives guarantees against all possible bad consequences.
From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various
It has certainly not undergone compression, and, in reply to the suggestion that the skull is that of an idiot, it may be urged that the onus probandi lies with those who adopt the hypothesis.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
Leave the masters under this general understanding to teach freely; if there in ground of complaint, let it be made, but leave the onus probandi on the objectors.
From Science & Education by Thomas Henry Huxley
The interpolation hypothesis, as I said, is easily advanced, but the onus probandi must needs lie heavily against it.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday
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