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When any fact is especially within the knowledge of any. person, the burden of proving that fact is' upon him. Illustrations. (a.) "\Vhen a, person does an 'act with some intentiol1 other , tlian tb~t which the character and circumstances of the act..sng- }-, ger-., the burden of proying that intention is upon him. . ,- ~ , (b.) A is charged with travelling 01'\ qr'l':i',ilway'witho~lt a. '" ticket. rrhe burden of proving th~t he 1 , . ket is on him. ].07. When the question --is whether a- Inan is Burden of alive or dead, and it is 'shown that' he was alive aro;~n~. withirl thirty years, the burden of proving that he p:~son~nown is dead is on th"}person 'who affirms it. ' to.have, be,ell , ' . alnoe wIthIn . 4-hirtyyears.