Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

prima facie evidence

Evidence that will establish a fact or sustain a judgment unless contradictory evidence is produced. "The legislative branch may create an evidential presumption, or a rule of prima facie' evidence, i.e., a rule which does not shut out evidence, but merely declares that certain conduct shall suffice as evidence until the opponent produces contrary evidence." John H. Wigmore, A Students' Textbook of the Law of Evidence 237 (1935).