onus probandi

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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

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

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

He understood, in its perfection, the great art of throwing the onus probandi on his adversary; and so could maintain almost any opinion, however absurd or fantastical, with fearless impunity.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

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