Legal Definition and Related Resources of Burden
Meaning of Burden
Synonyms of Burden
noun
- accountability
- adversity
- affliction
- anxiety
- assignment
- bother
- botheration
- bounden duty
- brunt
- call of duty
- care
- charge
- chore
- cumbrance
- devoir
- difficulty
- drawback
- duty
- encumbrance
- engagement
- errand
- handicap
- hardship
- hindrance
- impediment
- imposition
- job
- liability
- line of duty
- load
- mandate
- necessity
- obligation
- onus
- oppression
- ordeal
- pains
- requirement
- requisite
- responsibility
- strain
- task
- tribulation
- trouble
- undertaking
- vexation
- weight
- work
- Associated Concepts: burden of covenant
- burden of easement
- burden of going forward with evidence
- burden of loss
- burden of persuasion
- burden of proof
- burden upon commerce
- shifting of burden foreign phrases: Noii debet alteri per alterum iniqua conditio inferri
- A burdensome condition ought not to be imposed upon one man by the act of another
- Cum par delictum est duorum
- semper oneraturpetitor et melior habeturpossessoris causa
- When there is equal fault on both sides
- the burden is always placed on the plaintiff
- and the cause of the possessor is preferred
- Actus curiae neminem gravabit
- An act of the court shall prejudice no one
- Probandi necessitas incumbit illi qui agit
- The necessity of proving lies with the person who sues
- Quisentit onus sentiredebet etcommodum
- He who assumes the burden ought to derive the benefit
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What does Burden mean in American Law?
The definition of Burden in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
A weight or impediment; something to be borne. In legal contexts, often used figuratively, as in burden of proof, to indicate allocation of responsibility for something. The figurative use is predictable, given the importance in legal discourse of weighing metaphors, e.g., balancing, scales of justice, etc.
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