onus probandi

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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

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

The onus probandi would fall upon any one purporting to be descended from the said Samuel, and we know how uncommonly difficult said person would find it to prove anything.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

At all events, I deliver them to the reader as I find them set down in ‘myne authoures,’ and leave the onus probandi to the families whose honour is concerned in their perpetuation.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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)