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- Latin · calque ofonus probandi
- English todayburden of proof
Calque of Latin onus probandi.
Words from the same roots
Latinonus probandi all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
burden of proof
Today it means: The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi. Full definition →
Latin onus probandi