An averment in some of the pleadings in a case in which a negative is asserted. It is a general rule, established for the purpose of shortening and facilitating investigations, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative but as this rule is not founded on any presumption of law in favor of the party, but is me.....
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In a legal pleading, a negative statement or allegation that is also an assertion of a fact, for example
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