SEMI-PROOF

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Semiproof \Sem"i*proof`\ (s[e^]m"[i^]*pr[=oo]f`), n.
     Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
     [Obs.] --Bailey.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  SEMI-PROOF, civ. law. Presumptions of fact are so called. This degree of 
  proof is thus deaned[?]: "Non est ignorandum, probationem semiplenam eam 
  esse, per quam rei gestae fides aliqua fit judici; non tamen tanta ut jure 
  debeat in pronuncianda sententia eam sequi." Mascardus, De Prob. vol. 1, 
  Quaest. 11, n. 1, 4.