{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1683","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Burden of Proof","number":"1683","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1683/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE II - NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Extra-Contractual Liability","section":"Section 5. - Action for Compensation","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"The burden is on the victim to establish the amount of the loss sustained and to prove the circumstances which render the defendant liable to make it good.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1683/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":473,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/473/?article=1683&paragraph=lead#article-1683-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}