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The burden of proof (Latin: onus probandi, shortened from Onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat) is the obligation on a party in a dispute to provide sufficient warrant for their position.
Brown v. United States, reprinted in Prizes Cases in the United States Supreme Court p. 459 (observing it is "a well known rule of the prize court that the onus probandi is on the claimant"—he must prove his own good title before contesting a prize).
The written interrogatories and ship's papers established the nationality of the prize and her crew, and the origin and destination of the cargo: the vessel was said to be "confiscated out of her own mouth."Colombos, A Treatise on the Law of Prize p. 356 (quoting Sir James Marriott on using a vessel's own papers to condemn her) One considerable difference between prize law and ordinary Anglo-American criminal law is the reversal of the normal onus probandi or burden of proof.Colombos, A Treatise on the Law of Prize p. 361 discussing onus probandi) While in criminal courts a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, in prize court a vessel is guilty unless proven innocent.