onus probandi

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Only, if in any particular instance it be suspected that property has been acquired by force, fraud, or robbery, I contend that the onus probandi lies on him who raises the question.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

I do not affect to decide upon the point, but think the onus probandi to lie with those who would deny it.

From The Future of Islam by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen

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

But it must be proven that the defect exists—and the onus probandi rests upon Mr. Mallock.

From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John

But still the onus probandi lies with those who maintain the Sinhalese origin of any part of the Pali Canon and two strong arguments support the Indian origin of the major part.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir