Right To Begin
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
The party who asserts the affirmative of an issue has the right to begin.and reply, as on him is the burden of proof. The substantial affirmative, not the verbal, gives the right.
1 Greenl. Ev. § 74; 18 B. Mon. (Ky.) 186; 6 Ohio St. 307; 2 Gray (Mass.) 260.