burden of proof

English

Noun

burden of proof (plural burdens of proof)

1. (law) 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
2. (epistemology) The obligation of the person making a claim in a dispute to provide sufficient evidence for their position.

Synonyms

• (law): onus probandi

Translations

duty of a party in a legal proceeding

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舉證責任／举证责任 (jǔzhèng zérèn), 举证责任 (jǔzhèng zérèn), 證明責任／证明责任 (zhèngmíng zérèn), 证明责任 (zhèngmíng zérèn)

• Czech: důkazní břemeno n
• Danish: bevisbyrde c
• Dutch: bewijslast (nl) m, last (nl) m
• Finnish: todistustaakka (fi)
• French: charge de la preuve f
• German: Beweislast f
• Gujarati: સાબિતીનો બોજો (sābitīno bojo), પુરાવાનો બોજો (purāvāno bojo)
• Icelandic: sönnunarbyrði f
• Indonesian: beban bukti, beban pembuktian
• Interlingua: onere del prova
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• Italian: onere della prova m
• Japanese: 証明責任 (しょうめいせきにん, shōmei sekinin), 立証責任 (りっしょうせきにん, risshō sekinin)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: onus probandi
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: bevisbyrde m

• Portuguese: ônus da prova (pt) m
• Russian: бре́мя доказа́тельства n (brémja dokazátelʹstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѐрет докази́ва̄ња m

  Roman: tèret dokazívānja m

• Spanish: carga de la prueba f

obligation of the person making a claim to provide evidence for their position

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舉證責任／举证责任 (jǔzhèng zérèn), 举证责任 (jǔzhèng zérèn), 證明責任／证明责任 (zhèngmíng zérèn), 证明责任 (zhèngmíng zérèn)

• Danish: bevisbyrde c
• Finnish: todistustaakka (fi)
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• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: ônus da prova (pt) m