Latin: A burden or load; a weight The lading, burden, or cargo of a vessel. A charge; an incumbrance. Cum onere, (q. v.) with the incumbrance. Onus episeopale. Ancient customary payments from the clergy to their diocesan bishop, of synodals, pentecostals, etc. Onus importandi The charge of importing merchandise, mentioned in St. 12 Car. II. c. 28. Onus probandi Burden of … [Read more...] about ONUS
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ONE SATISFACTION RULE
A plaintiff who wins a case should only receive one award for a claim, not multiple awards from the same claim. … [Read more...] about ONE SATISFACTION RULE
ONUS PROBANDI
evidence. The burden of the proof. 2. It is a general rule, that the party who alleges the affirmative of any proposition shall prove it. It is also a general rule that the onus probandi lies. upon the party who seeks to support his case by a particular fact of which he is supposed to be cognizant; for example, when to a plea of infancy, the plaintiff replies a promise after … [Read more...] about ONUS PROBANDI
ONERANDO PRO RATA PORTIONIS
A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant In common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to. Reg. Orig. 182. … [Read more...] about ONERANDO PRO RATA PORTIONIS
OOCUPARE
Latin: Ia the civil law. Tor seise or take possession of; to enter upon a vacant possession; to take possession before another. Calvin. … [Read more...] about OOCUPARE