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It took you a shitload of posts from the rest of us to actually produce your link. semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit
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Under the Latin maxim necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the ordinary rule is that "the necessity of proof lies with he who complains."
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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“The onus probandi lies with you, Mr Solicitor,” said the Serjeant.
Lady Anna 2004
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“The onus probandi would lie with them,” said Mr. Prendergast.
Castle Richmond 2004
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God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
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Max Scheler took a similar posi - tion and declared that the burden of proof (onus probandi) falls on those who deny immortality.
DEATH AND IMMORTALITY JACQUES CHORON 1968
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If the record were received generally by any nation, the _onus probandi_ would in that case lie with those who impugned it.
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It is easy to see what vast opportunities were thus given for fastening a practically irrefutable charge of treason on any victim selected, when the recognised principle was that the _onus probandi_ lay with the accused.
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The meaning is, that the _onus probandi_ is thrown upon the person who maintains the distinction, Aristotle has a _prima facie_ case.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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Assuredly there is a strong presumption in its favour, and the _onus probandi_, in our own day, lies with those who deny its claims to acceptance.
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