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What (who) is prima facie - definition

LATIN EXPRESSION MEANING ON ITS FIRST ENCOUNTER OR AT FIRST SIGHT

Prima facia; Prima facie case; Prima facie duties; Primae facia; Prima facie duty; On its first appearance; By first instance; Primâ facie; First blush; On its face; Prima Facie; A Prima Facie Duty; On the face of it

Prima facie

·- At first view; on the first appearance.

prima facie

: (pry-mah fay-shah) adj. Latin for "at first look," or "on its face," referring to a lawsuit or criminal prosecution in which the evidence before trial is sufficient to prove the case unless there is substantial contradictory evidence presented at trial. A prima facie case presented to a Grand Jury by the prosecution will result in an indictment. Example: in a charge of bad check writing, evidence of a half dozen checks written on a non-existent bank account makes it a prima facie case. However, proof that the bank had misprinted the account number on the checks might disprove the prosecution's apparent "open and shut" case. See also: prima facie case

prima facie

Prima facie is used to describe something which appears to be true when you first consider it. (FORMAL)

There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

Wikipedia

Prima facie

Prima facie (; from Latin prīmā faciē) is a Latin expression meaning at first sight or based on first impression. The literal translation would be 'at first face' or 'at first appearance', from the feminine forms of primus ('first') and facies ('face'), both in the ablative case. In modern, colloquial and conversational English, a common translation would be "on the face of it".

The term prima facie is used in modern legal English (including both civil law and criminal law) to signify that upon initial examination, sufficient corroborating evidence appears to exist to support a case. In common law jurisdictions, a reference to prima facie evidence denotes evidence that, unless rebutted, would be sufficient to prove a particular proposition or fact. The term is used similarly in academic philosophy. Most legal proceedings, in most jurisdictions, require a prima facie case to exist, following which proceedings may then commence to test it, and create a ruling.

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Examples of use of prima facie

1. Prima facie, of course; it is all prima facie, until a court rules.

2. We have prima facie evidence of extensive electoral fraud.

3. There‘s already a prima facie case against the Prime Minister.

4. It appeared prima facie that the children, aged between nine and 13 years, were murdered.

5. That is a prima facie admission that the law was broken.