onus probandi

Example Sentences

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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 onus probandi is with those who assert what it is unnatural to expect; to be just able to doubt is no warrant for disbelieving.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

None of that, now; the_ onus probandi _is with you, scoundrel.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

The meaning is, that the onus probandi is thrown upon the person who maintains the distinction, Aristotle has a prima facie case.

From Ethics by Aristotle

If so, apologetics is literally a science, and it is pedantry to claim the defensive and pretend to throw the onus probandi upon objectors.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various