onus probandi
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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
On the contrary, we throw the full onus probandi on the side of the conclusion, and we refuse to assent to it at all, until we can assent to it altogether.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
At the close of our interview, he also alluded to his precious breeks with which, in his opinion, rest the onus probandi of his adventure.
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet
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 MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
Thus he lodges the onus probandi with those who impugn the received accounts; but Mr. Grote and Sir George Lewis throw it upon those who defend them.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
