onus probandi

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It is a rule of logic, and a very sensible rule, that the onus probandi, that is the burthen or weight of proving, rests on those who affirm a proposition.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

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

I say, on the supporters of Home Rule rests the onus probandi; they are the people who should show cause, let them prove their case in its favour.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

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 Sanday, William

Where two nations are already settled in a country, the onus probandi rests with the party that seeks to exclude the other.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers