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Burden Of Proof And Presumptions In Will Contests In Tennessee, Edmund M. Morgan

Vanderbilt Law Review

Burden of proof is a slippery phrase. It is used to describe the burden of producing evidence sufficient to justify a finding or the burden of persuading the trier to make a finding or both these burdens.' Thayer noted the confusion in the judicial opinions caused by this loose use of language. In his essay, in attempting to bring order into the subject, he stated first that the burden of persuasion is fixed by the pleadings or their equivalent at a stage of the proceedings preliminary to trial and second, that once fixed, it never shifts. These pronouncements have received …

Books Received, Law Review Staff

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-- Books Received --

Commercial Law, Cases on

By Robert Braucher

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1951. Pp. 709. $8.00

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Commercial Transactions, Cases and Materials, Temporary Edition

By Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr. and Bertram F. Willcox

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1951. Pp. 1251. $9.50

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Conflict of Laws, Cases and Materials, Third Edition

By Elliott E.Cheatham, Herbert F. Goodrich, Erwin N. Griswold and Willis L. M.Reese

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1951. Pp. 960. $9.00

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Constitution of Powers in a Secular Statte, A.

By Edward S. Corwin

Charlottesville: The Michie Co., 1951. Pp. 126

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Evidence, Cases …

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