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From: "C.V. Compton Shaw" <>
Subject: Re: Burden of Proof On The Advocate
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:07:20 -0500
Family records, governmental records, historical documents whose
validity is beyond reasonable doubt, and other documents (like
encyclopedias) whose veracity is beyond reproach are considered in
courts of law as valid evidence of the proposition offered and, in many
instance of "adjudicated facts". That is, because their validity is so
well established or because their source of proving the validity of the
proposition offered is so well recognized as being valid there is no
need for a formal proof of the same. Also, on many occassions,
presumptions exist in law. For example, it is presumed that the child of
a married couple is the child of the husband. In many instances in law
and, of course, in genealogy, some one offering an affirmative defense
to what would be an assertion ( such as bastardy) must prove the same.
Mr. C.V. Compton Shaw, from Dallas,Texas
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