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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-manufactures-act-1698/section-IV",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/11/10",
  "legislation_title": "Encouragement of Manufactures Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/encouragement-of-manufactures-act-1698",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "IV. Onus probandi upon Owner of Goods.",
  "text": "And be it further enacted That if any Question or Doubt shall arise where the said Goods were manufactured the Proof shall lie upon the Owner or Owners thereof and not upon the Prosecutor any Law Usage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/10/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:30.275255+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}