{"id":156,"date":"2012-03-25T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-12-11T01:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T06:07:38","slug":"preponderance-of-the-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Preponderance Of The Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have become so accustomed to the legal language that I find it amusing when my sister (a law school professor) and I have a discussion and rattle off terms quickly. \u00a0My wife sometimes finds our terminology confusing. \u00a0[Legal disclaimer: \u00a0she is a very intelligent professional but not a lawyer.] \u00a0It&#8217;s easy to forget that some words are not used on a regular basis outside of the law. \u00a0One of them is &#8220;preponderance.&#8221; \u00a0It is used to describe the proof given to a trial court. \u00a0In civil cases it means you have convinced the court that you are at least 51% right. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/courts.uslegal.com\/burden-of-proof\/preponderance-of-the-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a good explanation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you have any legal questions or need help with burden of proof in civil litigation, please contact Attorney Scott Lanin at (212) 764-7250 x 201 or use the contact form in the right sidebar.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have become so accustomed to the legal language that I find it amusing when my sister (a law school professor) and I have a discussion and rattle off terms quickly. \u00a0My wife sometimes finds our terminology confusing. \u00a0[Legal disclaimer: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/?p=156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ny-business-litigator-blog-ny-real-estate-litigator-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}