PRIMA FACIE CASE

prima facie case. 1. The establishment of a legally required rebuttable presumption. [Cases: Evidence 53, 85. C.J.S. Evidence §§ 2, 130–132, 134–135, 1341.] 2. A party’s production of enough evidence to allow the fact-trier to infer the fact at issue and rule in the party’s favor. [Cases: Evidence 584(1). C.J.S. Evidence §§ 226, 729, 1300–1305, 1320, 1324, 1326–1327, 1342, 1345.]

[Blacks Law 8th]