burden of proof
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The obligation on a party to prove the facts in issue, which in a criminal case rests on the prosecution.
The burden of proof lies squarely on the Crown, and the defendant need prove nothing.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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