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  • 41burden of evidence — The duty of a party to proceed with evidence at the beginning, or at any subsequent stage, of the trial, in order to make or meet a prima facie case. 29 Am J2d Ev § 123. This duty, otherwise, and perhaps more appropriately, called the burden of… …

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  • 42denial — A contradiction; a traverse; a withholding; a refusal to grant; a refusal. In pleading, a controverting of affirmative allegations in the pleading of an adversary. Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a denial of statements made in a… …

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  • 43general replication — A pleading which raises an issue on affirmative matter pleaded in the answer by controverting it in general terms, such pleading being unnecessary under reformed practice in some jurisdictions, such practice dispensing with a replication by… …

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  • 44controversion — ˈkän.trəˌvərzhən also rsh noun ( s) Etymology: Medieval Latin controversion , controversio, alteration of Latin controversia controversy 1. obsolete : controversy 2 …

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  • 45countertheme — “+ˌ noun Etymology: counter + theme 1. : countersubject 2. : a theme or thesis controverting another theme or thesis …

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  • 46DURAN, SIMEON BEN ẒEMAḤ — (RaSHBaẒ, Hebrew acronym of Rabbi Shimon ben Ẓemaḥ; 1361–1444), rabbinic authority, philosopher, and scientist. He was born in Majorca to R. Ẓemaḥ Astruc Duran. In his youth Simeon studied in Palma (Majorca) at the yeshivah of Ephraim Vidal, who… …

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  • 47JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …

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  • 48JUDAH HA-LEVI BEI-RABBI HILLEL — JUDAH HA LEVI BEI RABBI HILLEL, medieval paytan, some of whose work was recently discovered in the Cairo Genizah. Judah s piyyutim are based on customs prevailing in Ereẓ Israel, which would indicate that he lived there or in Egypt, where there… …

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