They soon settled their plan, however, and did the best thing they could to attain their object, and throw the onus upon me.
The onus probandi would lie with them," said Mr. Prendergast.
It has been assumed in all that has been said that the onus of refusal rests solely on the United States; as indeed it does.
The Act did not define the custom, and the onus lay on the tenant of establishing that the particular usage under which he held was within it.
Their procedure, based upon the civil law, accepted and enforced its rules as to the admission of evidence, and the onus of proof lay upon the assertor of a fact.
Of course, also, the menace he held out, that if any attempt were made to throw the onus of the crime on Paolina, he would meet it by avowing himself guilty, was as entirely to be disregarded.
Napoleon hoped, in the first instance, to shift the onus of stopping the war from himself to the English Government.
When the Austrian Government took the irrevocable step, it did not know yet that the whole onus of breaking the peace would fall upon it.
When this class supports the umpires against the club teams it will be time enough to lay the whole onus of hoodlumism in the ranks on the umpires--not until then.
All you have to do is to throw the onusof proof on this fellow.
He ought to have thrown the onus of proof on him, instead of acknowledging his identity by that childish exclamation.
He was not sure but that the onus of this whole desperate undertaking would yet fall upon him.
The crown now takes upon itself the onus of proving in every case that the child has been alive.
And before the court can make an order giving him the custody, the onus lies on him to prove that he is fit.
The onus probandi is with those who assail a teaching which is, and has long been, in possession.
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.
That all who spoke the English language should be treated as Englishmen, unless they could give proof to the contrary; the onus probandi lying on those who spoke the language of Locke, and Newton, and Milton, and Shakspeare.
The onus probandi, however, lays with the gentleman himself.
She could only disprove the charge, if it could be disproved, by shifting the onusof guilt on to the vanished stranger's shoulders.
But with Emmett alive and kicking, then the onus lies with him; it is only on his initiative that action can be taken, since it is only on his sworn statement that it can be alleged that an offence has been committed.
Milly Neal should not put the onus of her own recklessness and immorality upon him.
In trying to shift the onus of failure from his own shoulders he said: "Some of our corps commanders, and also officers of other rank, appear to be unwilling to go into a fight.
Certainly his every explanation of this campaign involved the shifting of the onus of his defeat to the shoulders of his subordinates,--principally Howard and Sedgwick.
The Court held that a sufficient prima facie case had been made out by the plaintiff, and that the onusnow lay on the defendants to prove their case.
Surely the onus probandi must rest with him who makes it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
